I have never done this before, at least on a real "live" server.
I rented a dedicated server recently, some thing I have thought about for a
long time, but for various reasons never did. But just recently I decided to give
it a try.
It turned out to be a little bit more complicated then I expected. However now,
I finally got it working.
The thing of it is, the service that offers the servers is very economical, how ever
it is not like a "hosting" service, where they have support, and everything is basically
"one click" and install.
The only "support" they have is, if and when the HD fails, they replace it with another,
and install the OS the client chooses. In my case, I had them install Debian Wheezy.
After it was installed, I needed to do the rest, install mysql, etc, and the web server.
It is non-commercial, mostly for a learning experience.
I had to do a lot of searches, and reading , studying , and trial by error, especially with
the "mysql" part and installing the phpBB forum. But any way, it does go to show, the
information on how to do this is available, and can be found doing searches, and
following, reading carefully the instructions.
If anybody cares to take a look :
http://elchanate.org/
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The reason for the name "El Chanate", is a long story, "chanate" is a common bird here in Mexico, also known as the "broad tailed grackle", about a month ago, my niece
found one that had fallen out of it's nest, and I took care of it, feeding it with a syringe, at first, then as it grew, more solid food, it does not live in a cage, it now lives in a tree,
still pretty young, and I still have to give it food, but any way it is turning out to be a wonderful pet,...but any way, that is another subject,and story,... but that is why I choose
the name, believe it or not, the chanate helped me figure out some things , when I could
not find the answers doing searches. They are extremely intelligent ,logical, and wise
birds.