i've got Knoppix running off a laptop HDD; seems to work fine. I can access the 'net, run apache, and see it from another machine on the net (the webserver, that is).

now, i want to secure it so no one can see it but me, enable some type of file transer (samba, ftp, ssh, etc.), and set it up as a Movable Type (www.movabletype.org) 'blog for myself (my own little knowledge warehouse, or "k-log" as some call it).

what's the best way to do this? setting up my hosts.allow and hosts.deny? block all services but http and (ftp, ssh, samba)? block with IPCHAINS?

It seems to me there should be a distro that sets up a simple webserver with secure ftp. is there one?

any help will be appreciated.

-- clint