Setting up a webserver?

[Deeko]

I'm just curious...what all does it take to set up a webserver? Not like a counterstrike server, like a website server. If I get DSL over the summer, which I am hoping I will, I thought it might be interesting to give it a go...anyone done this before?

 

[splice]

IT's pretty easy. head over to www.apache.org

 

[p0tempkin]

#1 - Static IP

 

[Jex]

What type of server are you wanting to do? You can simply run a web server on your Windows machine and leave it on all the time.

Or you can make a separate machine with Win2k or Linux or something...

I've got a Linux (Redhat) server that, among other things, is a web server. Pretty simple to set up and runs fine on old hardware (Pentium 166 w/ 32 MB Ram or whatever).

 

[splice]

Staic Helps but not required.

 

[smp]

P0tempkin - It used to be the case, but now there are ways around not having a static IP. Check out www.myftp.org , they do dynamic DNS for free, and they have auto update scripts that you can download for most platforms.

 

[BigM]

Web server is just as easy to setup as a halflife server. Just download one of the many programs for windows, install it and keep it going. I'd advise you start with OmniHttpd - its gui and quite easy to run multiple virtual web servers - (http://www.omnicron.ab.ca/httpd/) and then move on to apache compiled for windows (http://www.apache.org). Apache is the leading free web server used on many linux/unix machines on the internet. Good luck.

 

[TheOverlord]

if you dont have a static ip go with Dyndns.org