Friday, January 13, 2012
How about make our own hosting?
To have a web site people usually
buy such a service called web hosting. Businesses use services of paid
professionals if they like to have their web hosting in their own
premises. If you have an old laptop or PC and are connected to a
broadband line you can create your own website free, as a rewarding
do-it-yourself hobby.
Steps
- 1Get the Apache server software. Your old computer will be called your "Web Server" now on. Download public license Apache HTTP Server to your old computer. This free software is also the most widely used server on the Internet.
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- 3Select the custom install from options in the next dialogue. Change the install directory of Apache to your desired folder.
- 4Go to that directory and find "conf" folder. In that folder open the "httpd.conf" file. Now in your "Web Server" create a root directory for your web site; for example, "C:\Web\MyWeb"
- 5Inside the "httpd.conf", change the Apache default serving document root to your web root.
- 6Also in the same file change the default Apache web directory to your own web directory.
- 7Use a basic knowledge of writing HTML code and create a test page; write in it "I am a winner!" Save it as "C:\Web\MyWeb\index.html"
- 8Please open your port 80 for forwarding as described in Open Your Port 80 Behind a Firewall
- 9Now in your "Web Server" open your favorite browser and type in the address bar, http://localhost/ Your winner page will be served by the Internet on your browser.
- 10Get the IP of your home, (look in the Open Your Port 80 Behind a Firewall tips). That is the address of your broadband given by your Internet Service Provider, on the Internet. Ask a friend of yours to type it in his browser. Your site is open to public now.
- If your IP number is, say, 98.227.112.49 then your friend types http://98.227.112.49/
- This IP is subject to change and difficult to remember. It needs to be maintained dynamically, and pointed by a name like other sites, say www.i_am_homesite_proud.com.
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