Turning a computer into a server

[mrjack]

I've noticed that some of you on this forum have made their own websites, some even use their computer as the server for hosting it. My question is how do I turn my computer into a server for that purpose? I have yet to find a good site which explains how to do this.

 

[The_Other_One]

Appache is probably the best of the free web server apps. You basically just need to download it and run it. You can config the file a bit, but basically, just fine the shared folder and stick your files there.

If you have a router, you'll need to forward port 80 on your IP address. Pretty simple process, but different depending on your router. Oh, and some ISPs don't allow port 80 to be open, so you MAY have to use some other port. Basically, anything from 1 to 65255(or something like that) will work Again, just configure it in the config file.

 

[mrjack]

Ok, thanks. I found a site with some good info about 1 hour after I had posted.

 

[dragon2309]

I use WAMP5 as my server software, aminly because it has MySQL 4.1 and PHP 5 already isntalled, so anything that uses PHP ar anything on your site is already supported, none of this installing packages with apache. With WAMP5 you alsoget PHP My Admin and other tools like that.

Best of all its FREE....!!!!!!!

dragon2309

 

[Veurruckte]

The easiest way is to just download an operating system designed for that purpose. FreeBSD is great for serving. You download the ISO, and it includes everything you'll need.

And there's other advantages. http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html