[mac_addict415]

I want to use my old or fairly old mac to host a website. It is running OS9, might run 0SX. It is a 266mgz G3. My Question is exactly how do you set up your computer to do web hosting. I have a fair idea of how to do it in OSX, but no exactly. I do require a static Ip right?

Any help would be appreciated.

[fromthecloud]

There are a couple of ways to go about it. My personal suggestions is to go to O'Reilly. There are a bunch of really good tutorials that I have found very useful in terms of setting up your own webserver and running Apache, etc.

Hope this helps.

[mac_addict415]

do have any specific tutorials on the site you can point me to.

Thanks

[fromthecloud]

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/ma...ebserving.html

[clam2000]

in OS 9 you can use the personal web hosting... but I would strongly recomend either running linux or os X on the computer. your computer should run all of the PPC linux distros, If you are starting out I would recomend either yellow dog or gentoo. For more info look at http://penguinppc.org/

yellow dog is a ppc distrobution, so they have a strong focus on the mac

gentoo has one of the best package management systems, and a nice installation guide, so that once you have installed it you can type 'emerge apache' to get a web server.

it just depends what you want...

OS X does have a version of Apache built in, which will work for a basic web server. If you want PHP / Perl / other plugins there are binary distrobutions of apache 2 for os X.

--will