Hi all, I'm setting up a server that will eventually be connected directly to the net - which I've never done before (except my firewall I guess, which doesn't do anything else).
Currently, though, it's on my masqued internal network. This has been causing me some grief. For example, apache (apache-ssl) needs a ServerName, and it doesn't seem to like what's in /etc/hosts. I've got a feeling there will be other configs (eg postfix) which need to be different now from the eventual config. Does anybody have any suggestions for a general approach to configuring a server outside of its final environment? There's a real box answering to the domain name at the moment, so I don't want it conflicting with that. Also, are debian-default installations of most packages safe for use on the net? I'll set up packet filtering, and leave lots of stuff off, but I wasn't going to do much more than that. The server will eventually be doing www, mailing list, cvs, web forum, database (prob with a www interface, maybe also curses), sshd for config. I'm also assuming apache-ssl is what I want for this box. This post is a real mess of different stuff - hopefully it makes some sense :-) Any help appreciated. Thanks, Richard
