mac550
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Ok i want to start a small (almost business like) website that i will use for users to gain knowlage and to hopefully give me a bit of an income. Now i dont want to use a company to host my website and since my server is switch on and connected to the internet 24/7 so i thought id host the site from it and if successful then transfer the site to a proper webserver.
i have downloaded Apache 2.2.13 from the foundations site and installed it, but after that im lost. i cant figure out how to get it to do what i need it to do. now i thought if your hosting a website from your own webserver then you should be able to crate a domain, transfer html files into the apaches htdocs folder, set the config file, setup port forwarding on the router and it should work but i aint getting nothing. i did try typing in my ip into firefox (eg.xx.xxx.xxx.xx:80) but that didnt even work. i do need to find out if my ISP is blocking port 80 but if i use a different port it still dont work. can someone please help me figure it out and/or give me a link to a step-by-step guide on how to set everything up.
thanks alot
i have downloaded Apache 2.2.13 from the foundations site and installed it, but after that im lost. i cant figure out how to get it to do what i need it to do. now i thought if your hosting a website from your own webserver then you should be able to crate a domain, transfer html files into the apaches htdocs folder, set the config file, setup port forwarding on the router and it should work but i aint getting nothing. i did try typing in my ip into firefox (eg.xx.xxx.xxx.xx:80) but that didnt even work. i do need to find out if my ISP is blocking port 80 but if i use a different port it still dont work. can someone please help me figure it out and/or give me a link to a step-by-step guide on how to set everything up.
thanks alot
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