Linux – Connect a linux server to network and access it from another computer browser

command linelinuxlocalhostnetworking

I had a server in a hosting company and I took it home.
I need to connect him to a local network (not wifi) and access to the server from another computer in the network via browser, like I did it when it was in the hosting company.
I don't have any knowledge in linux, I just know how to type in the command line 🙂
I thinks all the IP configuration of the server is one big mess, because it passed from more then one hosting company to another…

I tried a lot of tutorials that I found in the web, but nothing works – mainly because I don't know how to check if I did something wrong.

I just need to know how to connect to local network ( D-Link router)
and then access the server from another computer browser.
thanks

update:
the server os is: CentOS release 4.8 (Final)

Best Answer

In short, you need:

  1. The ability to use the server to access the internet (e.g. if you connect a monitor and keyboard to it)
  2. The ability, on the server, to access the server application. E.g. browsing to http://localhost and seeing a web server
  3. You want the server to be in the same IP subnet as the other computers on the network. This should be easy if it's a home router, and all IP's will start with 192.168.1 or 192.168.0
  4. You want to go to http://IP-Of-Server (in the case of a web server) from the other computer.

If your main problem is #1, you want to loop up how to re-enable DHCP on your machine to get an Ip address If your main problem is #2, then you may need to restart the server process If your main problem is #4, then you might have a firewall issue.

Hope that helps.

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