setting up a new site?

[gene heskett <gheskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings all;

I've had my own web page since 2003 or so but lost it all when a pair of new
seacrate 2T drives died in the night last fall about 2 weeks apart.
Needless to say, rebuilding this machine has been quite a chore because
I did not take the time to trace out my usb cables and unplug any usb-serial
adapters, because if they are found, the d-i will assume falsely they feed
a brltty, and helpfully installs that driver and orca. I'll just suffice to
say that by the time I stuffed a hot potato in orcas mouth  it was not
rebootable and the logs were still being spammed about 30 lines for 
every keystroke.

An intolerable situation because no one on the debian mailing list knew
how to properly remove them and I did a fine job of pestering them about it.
Because the reboot was blocked by not finding the brltty drivers, explains
the first 27 installs of bullseye. That was the only way to reboot.  
This is
actually the 32nd install.

But as far as setting up a new web site, I'm starting from nothing.
The only files I've touched are apache2.conf and ports.conf to move it to
localhost:6309 or geneslinuxbox:6309 both of which now bring up the
test page.  The 6309 is a peon to that cpu from Hitachi, which installed
in place of the motorola 6809, makes a much more capable machine out
of a 1980's trs-80 color computer.

This site will be primarily a file server because I have some stuff
for raspios such as a realtime kernel so linuxcnc can be run on a pi,
in my case driving 1400 lbs of an 80 yo Sheldon lathe I've converted
to cnc operation.

All that is background, to intro myself. I am a long retired broadcast
Chief Engineer, with a formal education of the 8th grade, but was born
of a woman that gave me a near genius IQ. I quit school and went to work
fixing anything with a line cord or batteries at 15 yo, and tv's once 
central
Iowa had a tv station in late '47, now 87 yo and alone, my wife of 31
years passed from COPD on Dec 7nth 2020.  I'd get me another but it takes
so long to train them. :)

I want to setup a root directory someplace, owned by www-data, and from
which I can link to other locations as I find the resources to populate
them with. Other than changing the port, its a virgin apache2 install
whose test page works for http. I have not setup this directory yet,
and I'd like to restrict it to https access only, my router is already
setup to forward and NAT port 6309 to this machines local address, that's
been working for years for http, so my question for the day is whats next?

Thanks all, take care & stay well.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
 - Louis D. Brandeis


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