I'm gonna be installing a personal webserver on an old box... but, have a couple questions/problems.... first, This is being hosted off shared dialup network connection... from a winXP machine (diagram below) ((InterNet)) \/ ((WinXP Box)) \/ ((RedHat Box)) first off.... is there any good way of getting apache/whatever else to send someone logging onto ip, automatically to the redhat box (I've got apache installed on the winxp box... and is detectable from other locations) 2. Is there a way/how can i update the website from different locations (basically, something like cpanel... or ftp upload/modding) 3. yes... i know that the bandwidth is going to be about a full 2kbps at best... just need to have mobile access to files... not even secure for that matter... 4. Is there even a way to do all this fully open source/free.... or with an ftp server type thingy.... 5. yes... probably the wrong topic/forum... but couldn't think of where else to put it/this 6. PLEASE FORGIVE ME OHH GREAT FORUM GODS!!!

Try some firewall frontend like; http://www.ipcop.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/IPCop/WebHome http://e-smith.org/ http://www.smoothwall.org/ I have never used E-Smith, but prefer IpCop over Smoothwall. Do some resaerch on those. They should work well.

1) What you are requesting is more to do with firewalling than the apache webserver. I am unsure about windoze firewalls but you should be able to use IP fowarding/masquerading. 2) You can set up a simple FTP server to achieve this or use a more secure method like SSH (Secure SHell with SCP: Secure Copy Protocol). 3) If all you want is to have remote access to your files, just set up SSH and carry around a copy of PuTTy and WinSCP for windoze (they are free) on a floppy disk (most linux distros have SSH tools already installed). 4) Yes, the above methods are all free. Just a thought, but I'm sure most people would have set up their network as: ((InterNet)) \/ ((RedHat Box)) \/ ((WinXP Box))