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Posted by: ben_ben

How can you use your home computer as a server for your website?

Posted by: Greg

Use [url=http://www.apache.org/]Apache[/url] and forward port 80 on your router.

Posted by: ben_ben

there is a million download links which one is the right one?

Posted by: ben_ben

Can you be a little more detailed i have never used a server on my computer before how to i use apache

Posted by: Kubel

I suggest AppServ for Windows with No-IP.

Here's a direct link to the latest version:

[url]http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/appserv/appserv-win32-2.5.7.exe[/url]

AppServ 2.5.7 is a package installer that includes:
-Apache 2.2.3
-PHP 5.1.6
-MySQL 5.0.24a
-phpMyAdmin-2.9.0.2

Installation is really straight forward. Here's how I would suggest starting:

1) Install No-IP (see [url]http://appserv.minihost.org/no-ip.html[/url] for step-by-step instructions).

2) Install AppServ (see [url]http://appserv.minihost.org/appserv.html[/url] for step-by-step instructions).

3) Open port 80 on your router/firewall.

4) Visit your No-IP address to see if it is working.

Good luck!

Posted by: ben_ben

how do you upload your website to it?

Posted by: ben_ben

i have a website and what it was made in has a publish button i would like to publish it on my computer so my computer can be the server

Posted by: Kubel

Files go into your www folder within your appserv folder. This is usually:

c:\appserv\www\

Publish usually just establishes an FTP connection and FTPs the files to your server. These files exist somewhere on your computer, so find out where your program stores them (check My Documents and the applications Program Files folder). You should be able to copy these web site files right into your www folder.

If for some reason they are not saved on your computer, you can set up an FTP server using FileZilla Server.

[url]http://appserv.minihost.org/filezilla.html[/url] (there is a newer version of filezilla server than the one linked to on that site).

You will need to create a user and password and associate a home directory (you want to use c:\appserv\www\).

Once set up, just use localhost (or your internal IP address) as your address of the server you are publishing to, and use the username and password you created earlier. It should connect and then do its thing, and your files should be up.

Posted by: Kubel

One thing I should have mentioned: Your home page should be named something like:

index.html
index.htm
index.php
home.html
etc...

If not, it will just list a directory index when people visit your domain or IP. If your web building software doesn't do this for you, and you see a white page with a listing of a bunch of files, that's probably why. You will need to change the file name (or alter some config files) to make the home page automatically load.