On Tue, 2020-03-24 at 14:39 -0400, bruce wrote:
My initial goal is to have a Digitalocean VM, running centos8,
that's
running a live webapp (apache) that I'll be able to access via
http://www.cat.com/a.php.
Again, that domain is already in use. If you want to use an
unregistered domain on your LAN, pick something with a .lan suffix (or
another suffix that is not used on the internet).
If you want to use a domain name on the internet, you need to register
one. There are a lot of good reasons to own your own domain name (such
as freeing yourself from being held captive by your ISP, by having your
own email address that you can host anywhere), so if you can think of a
good one, register it.
The base server will be having selinux/firewall/etc...
Given that I've never touched selinux, and only tangentially played
with firewalls, I'm sure I'll screw things up.
I run Apache on CentOS and Fedora, though not as a webapp.
SELinux isn't a thorn in my side, though I don't know if webapps make
that difficult. And I don't do any of those database website things
(wikis, blogs, etc). They can be a SELinux headache (probably because
they do things in wierd ways, some of them *do* want to run in a risky
manner).
Firewalling isn't hard, either. The firewall configurator has a couple
of tick boxes for HTTP and HTTPS.
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