How to create a html page just for my LAN?

[cHeeZeFacTory]

I want to create a html page just for the use of the computer in my house. Would I still need server software such as Apache? Also, all the computers use FireFox as their default browser, how would I make links to other shared folders in the LAN? I know in IE, you just use the \\folder_name\\XXXX

Any tutorials out there that shows you how to do this? Pointers?

Thanks!!

 

[Grey]

Pretty cool idea, I would be interested in this as well. A nice way to place bookmarks in a central area so I can move around and not worry about it.

 

[JackMDS]

A very simple way is to install this free 170KB server.

Link to: SimpleServer:WWW

Install it or all or any computer of your choice. Make one Directory put your major staff there and points the server to this directory.

You can create a nice Hyperlink HTML page that points to you files by using this program.

Link to: dirhtml v4.59 - A Freeware Index.html Generator.

The result is an easy cool way to access to your staff without any typing just clicks and see etc.

Log here you can see an example of such a page created by DirHTML: Samples

On LAN if the server is on a computer (example) with an IP of 192.168.1.1

Type http:/192.168.1.1 into the Browser address bar and you will get the Dir Index that is on the local server from there you continue with the links created by Dirhtml.

A system like this can be set in minutes.

However Dirhtml is very capable and in time can develop a real fancy local serving system.

I actually use the same through the Internet in order to provide files for friends and family without the hassle of ftp. Very helpful when you deal with people that only know how to use the Windows Browser (look at the instruction TXT in the samples link).


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[cHeeZeFacTory]

wow! cool..l thanks for the info and links to the software!! I'll give this a try when I get home from work.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I used to do something like this too, a few years back when I used a dedicated Win98se box as a router/proxy for sharing cable internet in the house. I used a combination of Deerfield's WinGate, and ICS. One of the nifty features of WinGate, is that it can re-direct requests to certain ports as a mini-HTTP-server. So I could share certain drives on my machine, map those as drive letters on the proxy machine, and make those available as HTTP servers using WinGate. It was lightweight, and worked out pretty well. Unfortunately, WinGate wasn't the most stable piece of work (or perhaps it was 98?), so the box had to be rebooted every few weeks. Stiil, it was a workable solution, and allowed me to share files over HTTP, with much less security risk to my main machine, if the web server was hacked into.

If you run Windows, there is a stripped-down version of IIS, called "PWS" (personal web server), that is available (still?). That solution would be free, but I wouldn't trust its security at all, knowing how many issues that IIS has had in the past.

 

[Garion]

I fiddled around with building a web server for my house to serve some home pages, but it ended up being easier just to copy them to my local hard drive, aim my startup page to "c:\startup.html" and just copy it to the other PC's on my network whenever I changed it. Simple, easy, works fine. I just used FrontPage to build a simple page, and it does exactly what I need.

- G