Q. Can anyone give me a little know-how about starting up a website? Perhaps some step-by-step about how to go from knowing nothing about this, to running a website? I think alot of people would benefit from this information besides just myself. I need to know some of the steps that I need to take to register a domain name, and how to host it. Some of the terms I've heard associated with this were MySQL and cPanel (I think). Does anyone know what these terms mean? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks alot!
A. Step 1:
Register your domain name. You can register a domain name at yahoo or at godaddy.com.
Step 2:
Get web hosting. YOu can get web hosting thru Yahoo or Godaddy, or a gazillion other web hosting companies on line. You will likely only need a teeny bit of disk space for your site, but you may want to make sure you have at least 500mb of space so that you have enough room to have email accounts associated with your website/domain. Get a UNIX/RedHat/Linux/Apache type account. You don't need to pay for "windows" hosting. You should pay between $7 and $20 per month for hosting.... less, and you don't know what kind of customer service you are going to get, more, and you are paying too much.
Step 3:
Go to the place where you registered your domain name and make sure your DNS is pointing to the place where you are hosting your website.
more explanation: if you register mycompany.com and your host is hostingcompany.com, you need to make sure your domain name is pointing to hosting company. your dns may look like this:
ns1.hostingcompany.com
ns2.hostingcompany.com
Often times your webhost will do the DNS transfer for you. You will need to tell them your regristrar account's username and password. That's their job. It's ok to give it to them. You might want to change it afterwards though.
Side note: I recommend registering your own domain. Don't have your hosting company register it for you, as you want to own your domain name and have it registered in your own name.
Step 4:
The next step, of course, is to create your website and then load it onto your server. You should learn XHTML and CSS to do a good job here. You only need a text editor such as notepad or textpad to create your site and the filemanager portion of your control panel (see below) to upload your files, but you can also go all out and get Dreamweaver, or other WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor. I recommend Thomsons book "New Perspectives on HTML, XHTML, and Dynamic HTML, Comprehensive"
Terms:
MySQL:
MySQL is a type of database. If this is your first website and you asked the question you did, you likely will never need to use it. However, it is good to get a hosting package that allows for at least one MySQL database. You will only ever need one database, as you can have almost unlimited tables in this one database.
cPanel:
cPanel is a control panel for webhosting. It's a type of control panel... brand name. It is a really great control panel. WHat is a control panel? A control panel is a GUI by which you can control your website. It includes file manager, where you can upload pages to your website (uploading means putting files from your computer onto your website that is hosted by your hosting company you picked in step 2), control of .htaccess, which allows you to set up password protected directories, email, which allows you to set a default account for your site as well as create email mail boxes and email forwards.
How do I put Linux on my computer?
Q. I have a windows computer and I am wanting to put Linux on it. It could be the only OS on the computer it doesn't matter to me. I just need to know how and where to start. Could someone please tell me the step by step solution for this problem. THANKS!
A. First you need to choose which Linux distro you want, some of them are
-Ubuntu (this includes Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and others)
-Red Hat Fedora Core # (# meaning what version you get, the higher the number, the newer it is)
-Linux XP (pretty much a version of Linux that looks like Windows XP)
-Gentoo (I haven't ventured far into this, but it's kind of like Ubuntu)
-SuSE (I almost tried it out once, I even had the ISO, but never got around to using it, SuSE is made by Novell, which makes server/client software for schools and businesses)
-FreeBSD (if you ever used Mac OS X, you have used a version of this, though they call it Darwin)
-Mandriva (haven't really used it, so I can't say much about it)
-Debian (haven't really used it, so I can't say much about it)
-Knoppix (usually used for it's bootloader, it's basically a usable slimmed down version of you typical Linux kernel, some companies use this for hard drive diagnostic software, bootable software like password resetters, or for a bootable OS emulator, like VMWare)
-DSL (Da*m Small Linux) (this is a very slimmed down version of Linux used for diagnostics and utilities, other than for it's utility uses, it's a pretty useful version of Linux, it can only run from a LiveCD or from a flash drive)
-Lindows (by Linspire) (it's basically a version of Windows and Linux in one, and allows you to run both Linux and Windows programs on the same system, within the same operating system, without Wine or some emulator, though it is not free)
And there are a lot more popular, and non-popular distros out there
After you have chosen your distro you want to use, you can go to a torrent tracker or go to a website that hosts a download for the version of Linux you want and download the ISO
Once you have the ISO, use a program like Nero or Roxio to burn the ISO to a DVD (or CD) (burn the ISO as an image, do not burn the file to a data DVD/CD), if you have a Micro Center near youm they may have copies of Linux stamped on a CD for about a dollar or so if you don't want to or can't burn an ISO
After you have the ISO burned to a DVD or CD, boot from it, depending on what version of Linux you want, some will boot as a LiveCD where you have to run the installer program after booting from it, other versions will begin install after booting from it, install Linux by following the directions, the installation should be pretty straightforward, it has for every version of Linux I have installed
After you have installed Linux, depending on the way you have installed it, you should either boot directly into Linux, or you will boot into either GRUB or the Windows bootloader, depending on which one shows up, select your Linux distro from the multiboot list and hit enter, it should boot into Linux and it should be ready to use
How can i use PHP on my hosting with GoDaddy?
Q. I want to use Simple Machine Forums on my website but have Go Daddy hosting and don't think they support PHP. Anyone know how to get it to work, or something like Simple Machines that i could use that would work? THANKS!
A. GoDaddy not only supports PHP in both Linux and Windows hosting, it has an autoinstaller for SMF.
https://hostingconnection.godaddy.com/
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