Intranet???

ace2109 · 23 Feb 2010 at 21:56

Hi Guys,
Im looking to build a simple intranet site for a company i do work for. I want to use it for displaying information for employees.

I would like the address in the address bar to display something like

http://companyname.intranet.com

is this possible or would i be safer keeping things simple?

I have an old dell blade server i want to use to host it, it has ubuntu on it at the minute but i would really like your input on this guys.

ace

otemu · 24 Feb 2010 at 11:19

Normally it is good practice to avoid using top-level Internet domain names, such as .com and .co.uk in case of confliction but you can set it as http://companyname.intranet.com if you wish.

Not quite sure how you setup an intranet on ubuntu

I did find a topic about it on there foums Here but not sure if it help

Dj_Jestar · 24 Feb 2010 at 11:37

If it's an intranet site, surely it would be within the company domain and network?

K@rl · 24 Feb 2010 at 13:34

just add an A record to your internal DNS called intranet (for example) and point it to the internal address of the web server. Then set the host header of your intranet site to match.

That way you can use http://intranet or maybe http://intranet.yourcompany.local

You could even go the whole hog and set your group policy to make it the default home page if you are in a domain environment

ace2109 · 24 Feb 2010 at 13:45

im building this from scratch guys and it needs to be cheap if not free as i have all the hardware.

Do i have to setup IIS on a server to run it properly?

Yakyb · 24 Feb 2010 at 15:28

Microsoft Sharepoint Services is great and free and fills 90% of requirements for most comapnies

Dj_Jestar · 24 Feb 2010 at 15:33

Yakyb said:
Microsoft Sharepoint Services is great

;/

Wiki > Sharepoint.

Spooter · 24 Feb 2010 at 18:17

Wiki < Sharepoint.

Dj_Jestar · 24 Feb 2010 at 18:30

Spooter said:
Wiki < Sharepoint.

:/

as if, tbh.

ace2109 · 25 Feb 2010 at 08:41

Yakyb said:
Microsoft Sharepoint Services is great and free and fills 90% of requirements for most comapnies

any links to this?

Yakyb · 25 Feb 2010 at 10:12

ace2109 said:
any links to this?

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/product/related-technologies/Pages/windows-sharepoint-services.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_SharePoint_Services

Dj_Jestar · 25 Feb 2010 at 10:47

I really can't believe anyone thinks Sharepoint is good ;/

Yakyb · 25 Feb 2010 at 12:45

why whats wrong with it,

Easily Visible company Calanders
File Version history
AD integration
Image Libraries
Departmental HomePages
Surveys
Questionnaires
Forums

Dj_Jestar · 25 Feb 2010 at 12:49

Bloat, and it does far more than anyone needs it to. AD integration? Why? So you can apply policies to a website and lock it down to an almost infinite level?

Yakyb · 26 Feb 2010 at 09:08

Dj_Jestar said:
Bloat, and it does far more than anyone needs it to. AD integration? Why? So you can apply policies to a website and lock it down to an almost infinite level?

your probably right there (bloat)

but AD integration is the easiest way of applying policies on workspaces (you wouldn't believe how many times important things have been deleted before we started locking things down by groups