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Robin.Kopetzky at kafb

Dec 11, 2001, 1:15 PM

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Greetings All!!

I am VERY new at this and am setting up an ISP for a small community
here in New Mexico. I am using SuSe Linux 7.3 and Apache 1.3.22 and need to
configure it so that any of the following web pages are default values:
index.htm, index.html, default.htm and default.html. What entry in the
httpd.conf do I change? I haven't been able to figure this out. Also, how
much does proxy caching help in making the server appear faster??

Thanks!!

Robin E. Kopetzky - 'Sparky'
ACS/GSG - Software Development Specialist - SAS
Air Force Safety Center
Kirtland Air Force Center
9700 Avenue G SE #279A
Albuquerque, NM 87117-5670
(505) 853-7417
DSN 263-7417

"Human beings can always be counted on to assert with vigor their God-given
right to be stupid." - Dean Koontz in 'False Memory'

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Robin.Kopetzky at kafb

Dec 11, 2001, 1:32 PM

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RE: Default pages [In reply to]

Joshua:

On the proxy issue:
Basically, we are using a 512kbps fractional T1 to start with a
sixteen modem 56k modem nest expandable to 32. The Linux box is a Pentium 4
1.6gig w/1 gig of ram and 2 40 gig SCSI-160 drives. We want the system to
act like its on a T1 but we're not on a T1, at least not for a while...
Also, we're using the usual sendmail, DNS, DHCP stuff but newsgroups will be
served from our GSP.

Robin E. Kopetzky - 'Sparky'
ACS/GSG - Software Development Specialist - SAS
Air Force Safety Center
Kirtland Air Force Center
9700 Avenue G SE #279A
Albuquerque, NM 87117-5670
(505) 853-7417
DSN 263-7417

"Human beings can always be counted on to assert with vigor their God-given
right to be stupid." - Dean Koontz in 'False Memory'

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joshua at slive

Dec 11, 2001, 1:33 PM

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RE: Default pages [In reply to]

> From: Kopetzky Robin CIV AFSC/SEP
> [mailto:Robin.Kopetzky [at] kafb]

> I am VERY new at this and am setting up an ISP for a small community
> here in New Mexico. I am using SuSe Linux 7.3 and Apache 1.3.22
> and need to
> configure it so that any of the following web pages are default values:
> index.htm, index.html, default.htm and default.html. What entry in the
> httpd.conf do I change? I haven't been able to figure this out. Also, how
> much does proxy caching help in making the server appear faster??

DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html default.htm default.html
in httpd.conf.

Proxy caching is a complicated issue. You will need to give more details
about the proposed setup to get an intelligent response.

Joshua.

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joshua at slive

Dec 11, 2001, 1:44 PM

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RE: Default pages [In reply to]

> From: Kopetzky Robin CIV AFSC/SEP
> [mailto:Robin.Kopetzky [at] kafb]

> Joshua:
>
> On the proxy issue:
> Basically, we are using a 512kbps fractional T1 to start with a
> sixteen modem 56k modem nest expandable to 32. The Linux box is a
> Pentium 4
> 1.6gig w/1 gig of ram and 2 40 gig SCSI-160 drives. We want the system to
> act like its on a T1 but we're not on a T1, at least not for a while...
> Also, we're using the usual sendmail, DNS, DHCP stuff but
> newsgroups will be
> served from our GSP.

So you intend to use the proxy server to reduce the bandwidth used by people
on your end of the connection browsing the web? In that case, it may very
well be helpful, if these people tend to visit similar sites.

I'm not really an expert on this area. Perhaps others can comment.

Joshua.

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derek at rivertower

Dec 11, 2001, 2:49 PM

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RE: Default pages [In reply to]

On proxying (for an ISP type installation) I would highly advise using
squid - you can set it up for transparent proxying/caching where the
customer has no idea (not quite for expert customers) about the cache
in front of them - actually I dont like this myself as it can give
problems to the end-user (e.g. you change the IP & content of a site,
but not the URL, out there beyond the proxy/cache can you may see the
old content - until the TTL value of the named record expires) - but
its a very nice setup for an ISP for conserving bandwidth and its free -
you just need very fast large capacity drive space.

Derek

>
> > From: Kopetzky Robin CIV AFSC/SEP
> > [mailto:Robin.Kopetzky [at] kafb]
>
> > Joshua:
> >
> > On the proxy issue:
> > Basically, we are using a 512kbps fractional T1 to start with a
> > sixteen modem 56k modem nest expandable to 32. The Linux box is a
> > Pentium 4
> > 1.6gig w/1 gig of ram and 2 40 gig SCSI-160 drives. We want the
system to
> > act like its on a T1 but we're not on a T1, at least not for a
while...
> > Also, we're using the usual sendmail, DNS, DHCP stuff but
> > newsgroups will be
> > served from our GSP.
>
> So you intend to use the proxy server to reduce the bandwidth used by
people
> on your end of the connection browsing the web? In that case, it may
very
> well be helpful, if these people tend to visit similar sites.
>
> I'm not really an expert on this area. Perhaps others can comment.
>
> Joshua.
>
>
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Derek Conniffe

Rivertower Ltd

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