Hello Beth, First of all, no, the hostname will not affect the computer's ability to be a web server. If you want to host websites from this computer, you'll likely be using the Apache web server -- there is a package in CentOS for apache, and more information on it can be found on Apache's website: http://httpd.apache.org/ I'm not sure what you meant that you had to "load" the html document "from cd directly" -- if you could explain, it would help me answer your question. No, you do not need to set up an ftp server on this computer to transfer files to it -- although it is a common method. There are other applications, like scp that allow you to transfer files, with enhanced security -- although an ftp server may better meet your needs. Yes, the fact that this computer is NATed is important. If you expect to access the mail/web/ftp servers hosted on this machine from outside of the NAT network, you will need to forward the needed ports through your firewall/router (that handles the NAT). -Chris Beth Curotto wrote: > I have just set up a box - HOSTNAME mail.abni.com > > It has Qmail setup. > > I also want this box to serve as the host for our website - abni.com > > Can someone point me in the direction of where to go next. > > I am unsure if HOSTNAME will be a problem as a web server. > > Currently I have loaded a html doc in - /var/www/html, but I had to load > from cd directly on this machine. > > Is is neccessary to setup ftp to be able to upload html from remote system? > > Don't know if this is important at this point - but this system is NAT'd > to an internal ip. > > Heck of a 1st Linux project, huh. That's for all the advice. > > Beth