Many people want to host thier own website, free of cost with all sort of supports like ASP, FTP, phpMyAdmin, MySQL, phpBB etc etc, and they simply do not know how to do it so they opt for a free web hosting company which displays irriatating ads on the limited webspace with a freehosting.hostingcompany.com/members/you and also do not give you almost any support, now ALL THAT IS GONE , you can host your own site on your own computer.
Requirements: 1. high speed internet connection (atleast 64K broadband) 2. respectable computer (u do not need a itanium or xenon server, but atleast a P3 with 256 mb ram and 40gb HDD)
You will have to: 1. keep your pc 24 hours on (after all you are the server and its your responsblility to maintain uptime, a few hours downtime does not matter if you are just hosting a very small site for your friends) 2. dedicate the computer to hosting ( you cannot play games and expect people to view your site simultaneously)
well you got every thing then lets go
step 1: web server you will need a web serving software to listen to the HTTP ports and serve the pages to requests
i recommend a simple software like Abyss and i will demostrate this tute with it.
2. install it (its very easy and self explanatory)
3. now you will see a blue coloured icon in you system tray right click and click console, you will be asked for usrname and password, enter the credentials you gave when abyss was getting installed.
4. your hosting directory will be %abyss path&\htdocs eg if you choose the default option it will be C:\Program Files\Abyss\htdocs
5. paste your site files and all the directory structure here. (it should have atleast one index.html page)
6. now to view you page wich is hosted on your computer you have to enter your ip (not 127.0.0.1, its your localhost ip, and you cannot view pages over the net with this ip, so do not go around giving this ip to your friends.)
Hi, this is Stallon Selvan a teen blogger,
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