Need Help Setting Up Web Server

yhack

yhack

yhack

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Hi,

I've got a VPS running Windows which I use for many things, and now I want to put a website on it.

I've installed Apache, when I type the IP in my browser on my computer it works fine. Now I want to be able to use a domain I've got for it. I've had a look around the internet, but I haven't found out how.

On namecheap I need to put in my nameservers, but I'm not sure how to do this properly.

If anyone has experience or knows how to make my domain go to the ip, any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Paul
 
thewanted said:
You need to create an A record in the DNS control panel on 'namecheap', assuming they have one. The A record will point the domain name to the IP address of the server.

Why did you install Apache? If it's for PHP, both IIS6 and IIS7 can run PHP. Admittedly IIS7 handles it a lot better.

EDIT: I can't help you with the Apache config, sorry. I'm sure someone will be along shortly.
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I chose Apache because I've used it before, I've never heard of IIS, I'll look into it. Would you recommend it over Apache?

I'll look for an 'A record' on namecheap, thanks :)
 
I got the domain part working fine now, thanks.

I've installed ISS 5.1, which I seem to be limited to because of the version of Windows I have on the VPS. I'll continue using this.

Yeah I'll be using PHP, it's the programming language I know the most, thanks for the help :)
 
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