Apache/Webserver, ReverseDNS, FTP Questions

[jtp755]

By the end of the week i will own my own domainname and i have been reading about hosting my own website using my domainname. What would be the easiest way to accomplish this? I would like to be able to view the webpage locally on my network and also set up my network to use the domain(computername.domain.com or w/e) and i read about Reverse DNS(what does this accomplish?).

Also....i am currently using no-ip for my FTP url but i want it to be ftp.mydomain.com instead of ******.no-ip.com. How can i do this. Is it possible for free? Any help would be appreciated. i just wanna make sure i understand everythign and have it all setup when i get my domainname. thx.

[carbon]

you mean you will purchase a zone name by the end of the week?

a zone is like yahoo.com, and the www.yahoo.com is a domain name under the zone "yahoo.com"

If you have purchased a zone say foo.com
convention tells you www.foo.com under foo.com is port 80, which port 80 by convention is listened by web server (like apache).

does that answer your question.
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[jtp755]

no that doesnt answer my question. i am purchasing a "zone" and i know that http runs on port 80. i need to know how to set up my computer and apache and maybe ftp to use this domain or "zone" as you called it.

[carbon]

emerge aWebServerProgram
emerge aFtpProgram

then go to places like zoneedit.com
to have your domain points to your IP
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[jtp755]

ok....i am getting *****.com through no-ip.com domains.