How do I set up an extranet and an intranet

[rosaliem]

I can write html and can do (very) simple things in php. I have been maintaining and adding new pages to my company's internet site for about 6 months.

Because of this, I have been tasked with creating an intranet and an extranet. I have no clue of how to approach those tasks. I'm not getting help from our "network guys". Either they don't know, or are too busy and I need to be more specific.

Our internet website is hosted on one of our machines running Windows XP, Apache, mysql, and php. We need to be able to access the intra- and extra-nets from any computer anywhere. We have a little over 50 employees, if that makes any difference.

I've googled the internet which led me to tek-tips, where I've searched threads and the FAQs. I may be missing some answers just because this is so new to me, sorry if it's already been addressed.

Thanks,
Rosaliem

 

[ericbrunson]

Usually the only difference between an intranet and an extranet WRT web servers is that you can't get to the intranet from outside the company. But if you need to get to both from anywhere, what's the difference between the two?

 

[rosaliem]

Sorry I wasn't more clear. Our employees often work offsite and so may be anywhere when they try to access the intranet. The contents of the Intranet still need to be inaccessable to the general public.

I continued researching my questions after posting here and found some specifics to ask my network guys. After chatting with them just a few minutes ago, one is working on a way to require password authentication to an alternate IP address, where we can host our intranet files.

Thanks!
Rosaliem

 

[RhythmAce]

You will need public access to do it that way which means a registered domain. Rather than buy a new one, you could create a sub-domain of your existing domain i.e.

http://workgroup.companydomain.com.

Then do as suggested by your network guys and use .htaccess. This will prompt for a user name and password before allowing access. You will need to create a vhost container in httpd.conf for it. Don't forget to change the AllowOverride directive so it can use .htaccess.