Fedora Core 8

[Starshine]

I am kinda new to the whole Linux / Unix system of things and would like to find one person that is pretty good with Unix / Linux that would be willing to help me configure my copy of Fedora ( Its installed and currently running updates )

I'd like to try and setup a simple IRC or web host on this computer, but really don't know the first steps ( or how to configure my modem to allow such things to happen )

I am a pretty fast study.

Basically, would like to set this up with either IRC or a web-host to run a small blog or website, and just customize Fedora with things that I may need or want to have.

[kkenny]

Which Desktop Manager are you using?
(Gnome/KDE/XFce/etc.,)

If you want to get a good IRC manager, but don't mind installing another Desktop Managing system
type this in your termial:
su -
*root password*
yum groupinstall kde OR yum install kde

then restart your computer

then login to your account using KDE,
you have this really good IRC manager called "Konversation" it is a more graphical version of mIRC, and it works just as well.

I currently use Fedora, but unfortunately, I'm not sure how to set it as a webhost.

x] At least I tried explaining the IRC part lol

[HomerJ]

I wouldn't install KDE just for an IRC client. I recommend xchat.

For an IRC server (that is what you want right?), I can't help you.

If you don't want to read my guide, skip to the end, I found a better tutorial at howtoforge.

For a webserver, I can help you a little. I had a Gentoo webserver running in my house for a while, but I decided to switch to x10. Just install apache (should be as simply as yum install apache). Then start the apache service. In gentoo, you would do /etc/init.d/apache start. In fedora, I think you have an executable called service. As root, run service apache start. It could also be called apache2 or httpd, so try those if apache doesn't work. You will also have to add it to the default runlevel so it starts upon booting. I think there is a GUI program in fedora called system-config-services that can help you with this.

You will also need to install PHP and MySQL. That should be similar to installing apache, just yum install php mysql. You may have to configure apache to use PHP. In Gentoo, this is done by editing /etc/conf.d/apache2 and adding -D PHP5 to the APACHE_OPTS variable. In fedora, this should be relatively similar, but the config file may be located elsewhere, or there may be GUI tool that is the preferred method.

Installing MySQL may be easy, but setting it up may be a challenge. I am sure fedora has a GUI tool, so find out what that is and use it. Setting it up using its own CLI tools was a real chore for me.

I also found an online tutorial. You can probably skip the parts about the services that you don't need (DNS server, email).

[IonCannon218]

Here is a new, simple IRCd server software: http://inspircd.org/

[Kremen]

very nice

[konekt]

Here is a link on setting Fedora 7 as a server. I wouldn't imagine there would be much of a difference:
http://howtoforge.com/perfect_server_fedora7

I want to nitpick about something real quick: after Fedora 7, the addition- core- was dropped. Fedora Core acts to specify which install type of Fedora you have: Core or Extras. As on Fedora 7, these two versions were consolidated and Core was dropped for the name. So it is only Fedora 8.

I hope that didn't make me sound like a self-righteous but, I just assumed you might be interested in knowing this.