WINDOWS HOW TO (For 98, 2000, XP)
Install time: 20-30 mins
Step 1
You will need mysql, php , ftp , and all the good stuff between. to get it all at once then you need to go here and download the latest package.
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
What does it come with?
Apache HTTPD 2.0.53, MySQL 4.1.11, PHP 5.0.4 + 4.3.11 + PEAR + Switch, MiniPerl 5.8.3, Openssl 0.9.7f, PHPMyAdmin 2.6.1 pl3, XAMPP Control Panel 1.0, eAccelerator 0.9.2a, Webalizer 2.01-10, Mercury Mail Transport System für Win32 und NetWare Systems v4.01a, FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.6a, SQLite 2.8.15, ADODB 4.60, Zend Optimizer 2.5.7, XAMPP Security.
Step 2:
Follow the easy steps to install
Step 3: DNS
I like to use easyDNS to point my domain to Server IP, you can do so by going to www.easydns.com. Create your account which is free and easy to use, Please follow the online information
getting a hostname www.easydns.com or www.no-ip.com/index.php
All done
LINUX HOW TO:
Install time: 15-20 mins
Step 1
Go to http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html and download the lastest
from there go to your terminal, and run the following comands:
Step 2: Installation
After downloading simply type in the following commands:
1. Go to a Linux shell and login as the system administrator root:
2. Extract the downloaded archive file to /opt:
tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.4.13.tar.gz -C /opt
Warning: Please use only this command to install XAMPP. DON'T use any Microsoft Windows tools to extract the archive, it won't work.
Warning 2: already installed XAMPP versions get overwritten by this command.
That's all. XAMPP is now installed below the /opt/lampp directory.
Step 3: Start
To start XAMPP simply call this command:
/opt/lampp/lampp start
You should now see something like this on your screen:
Starting XAMPP 1.4.13...
LAMPP: Starting Apache...
LAMPP: Starting MySQL...
LAMPP started.
Ready. Apache and MySQL are running.
I like to use easyDNS to point my domain to Server IP, you can do so by going to www.easydns.com. Create your account which is free and easy to use, Please follow the online information
getting a hostname www.easydns.com or www.no-ip.com/index.php
All done
*********************************************************************************
NOTE
**********************************************************************************
Running a web server from your home is not necessarily difficult or expensive. In order to run a home web server you need a fairly high-speed connection, a Domain name, a computer, an operating system, and an HTTP server. Of course anything you wish to add beyond that is up to you.
The first item, a high-speed connection, is probably going to be your highest cost. DSL will get you the most bandwidth for your buck though, and it is available in almost all North American markets now. You will have to ensure that your Internet Service Provider (ISP) knows that you intend to run a web server from your home so that your can get a dedicated IP, or at least have them set up their DNS to point your Domain Name to your computer. Generally speaking a dedicated IP is an additional price, but when dealing with accounts that are designed for servers it may not be.
Domain names are easy to acquire and not overly expensive, Go Daddy Software has what I believe is the cheapest domain name registration fees on the Internet. Fees on Go Daddy range from $7 - $10/year. But having a domain name is technically optional since there are many ways around having to pay that yearly fee. You could use only your IP address, but you would have to ensure that your ISP gives you a dedicated IP address so you can always have the same address. The other option is to use a sub-domain, your ISP could provide you with a sub-domain i.e. www.yourname.ispname.com, or if you know someone who owns a domain name and is willing to set up DNS for a sub-domain for you your could lower your costs considerably.
Contrary to popular opinion it does not take a lot of power to run a web server. Your primary concern is the minimum requirements of the platform you choose. You can use an old 486 and still get good performance on a Linux machine running an Apache HTTP Server. Most Linux distributions (commonly referred to as "flavors") recommend at least a Pentium processor with 64 Meg RAM.
Of course you can run a web server on pretty much any platform from Windows 95 and up. The question is do you really want to run a web server on Windows 95. Your best bet is a Unix or Linux platform. You get much better stability for a much lower cost. Linux is Open source, so your could easily enough find a free version. There are several flavors of both Linux and Unix that come pre-bundled with all the software you will need to run a web server out of your home.
There are a variety of web server packages available that range in price from "Oh my god you must be kidding" to free. Apache is one of the best-known web servers on the market, and guess what, it is one of the free ones. According to the October 2003 Netcraft Web Server survey, more than 64% of web sites on the Internet are hosted on Apache servers. Apache is highly recommended it is fairly simple to set up, and highly configurable. The only negative thing that can be said about Apache is it is not the easiest software to tweak. Apache is most commonly run on UNIX or Linux servers, while there are Win32 ports Apache was designed for UNIX so it works best on UNIX based servers, since Linux is at its core a UNIX based platform.
So if you went with a free version of Linux your only costs would be your ISP fees, and your hardware. With this simple and cheap set up you can run a pretty sophisticated web service system host as many domain names as you wish, which in the end means that you could offset some of your ISP fees by hosting some other sites and charging a fee. Of course if you would want to be aware that any site you host takes away from your bandwidth and system resources so you would not want to spread yourself too thin.
***********************************************************************
So think about it afro All the best ***************************************
