Home Server Update

Two servers shown here. One is a Window Home Server and the other is an XP Pro Machine running Apache. These server sit on a rack I got for 75$ and then painted black. Nothing to special about them really but they work really well. Windows Home Server Backups all my desktops and laptops so if anything ever happens I'm covered

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[mztguitar]

which version of apache were you using in the XP machine??

[daveolso]

@mztguitar This was an old video but I think at the moment I'm running one version behind. It seems to be stable so no need to change it out. I'm sure the new version add's something new but Apache doesn't change a whole lot. a few security things is all from time to time.

[mztguitar]

@daveolso: thanks, the first time I installed apache was in a win7 laptop with the latest version just to try it out, since everything worked out great I decided to do it in my XP desktop and turn it into a server but I could never get the website to be available outside my LAN... I even tried using previous versions of apache but nothing worked and never could find a solution online, so I just decided to go back to Linux Fedora which is working fine now

[daveolso]

@mztguitar oh.. Well for that you need a static IP from your provider. Then you need to port forward port 80 to your internal IP. Then set your DNS name to the Static IP from the provider and you should be able to access your DNS name from your computer. Some routers will need a little more config but for the most part that should work. Give it a try. Also turn your firewall off on your XP for testing.

[videoflyguy]

Try freeNAS, it's free, you just need to install which is simple...the rest of the setup is online

[daveolso]

@videoflyguy Check out my recent video. I use freenas as one of my servers now. I like some of the options it has.

[zt14427]

I have the same external LG dvd drive, I love that drive, it has saved my ass so many times...

[mztguitar]

@daveolso: thanks, I did have the IP static in XP and I'm not sure what I was doing wrong cause I have the ports forwarded to my IP, firewall was off... maybe something I was doing wrong in the config file or maybe a version incompatibility? I don't know... right now I have the server under Fedora and working... so I'll give it a try in XP some other time! Thanks again for replying!

[EyesOnMeStudios]

haha have the brother to the HP a dc5100 as my fileserver gotta love those pentium 4's

[videoflyguy]

@daveolso It is definitely full of promise in the world of network serving. It is really small in size, has multiple features, and I will definitely use this for my server until I get enough money for WHS...or I may even just stay with FreeNAS. The only problem I have had was my first Freenas server, i had a partition for the OS and the data. One day i tryed to turn it on and it didn't turn on. Seems the OS deleted both the partitions and formatted itself. That was 1 year ago but its fine now