Honestly, I would rather the web server be on it’s own dedicated vm with minimal other services running and it’s own internal IP address on a virtual bridge answerable to the external ethernet interface. This is actually similar to what I ran post 2000 using VMWARE. External ethernet card 1: unposted by host OS, linked to OpenBSD vm as internet interface 2nd ethernet interface was attached to internal virtual bridge that was also connected as a second interface to the openBSD vm. Host OS was linked to virtual bridge along with all other vm’s. This way, all instances and the host OS were protected behind the OpenBSD instance which acted as the firewall. One of those instances was a web server that hosted a simple website (one of the many things I tried to learn how to do).
At the time, that configuration for VMWare was not even supported, let alone documented. So, I had a pretty unique setup (and I did document it eventually and submitted it to the dev team at VMWare). Oh man, were they surprised. -Eric From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Virtual Environments Coordinator Dept. On Jul 13, 2025, at 3:00 PM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, A friend sent me an article about a guy that always configures a web server on his desktop. I did some work with a guy who configured his daily driver MAC as a web server and used it for development. I'm running Kubuntu on my desk top and Ubuntu on my virtualization. I could configure my desktop as a web server.... however I an not so sure I want to. My main concern is security. What are your thoughts? Thanks!! Keith --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
