[tvm9392]

I've seen some guides but most of them seem out of date or cost money. Can anybody either tell me how step by step or provide me with a good up to date guide?

[nator419]

well not sure where you can find a guide i would search around or there might be a servers for dumbs book but aside from that i would go with Apache you can download it for free and its suppose to be the most stable server

[fluffy2560]

You can download a copy of Linux easily enough if you have a DSL connection. If you get an ISO image, you can burn it onto a DVD or CD and then boot your PC up with it and install Linux (it will destroy what you have originally on your hard disk). The size of an ISO image could be between say, 700 MB (CD) and 4.5 GB (DVD). There are plenty of free Linux installs around: Ubuntu, SuSe, RedHat and so on. You can easily install the usual Linux software like Apache, MySQL and PHP to start generating your own software using the install tools available in Linux. To access your new server, you should have a DSL or fixed connection with fixed IP address (request from your telecoms supplier). This is the server side IP address. Your server will be on the LAN side with its own IP address firewalled by your DSL router. Finally, you need a domain name which resolves to your address. Your telecoms supplier can probably help you with that easily enough but avoid a domain name that includes their company name as well - e.g. if your telco is called Big.com, you don't want an address www.MyWebSite.Big.com - you'd be better off with www.MyWebSite.com so you can take your domain to any hosting company without being linked to Big.com forever.

If you've no computer knowledge, you're better off joining say a computer club or buying some books. There are loads of books on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) out there which are worth reading. Overall, be prepared to put some time and money into your efforts.

If you don't want to be bothered with setting up your own server, just buy hosting services from a provider. Then you do not have to leave your own server PC on all the time.

I run my own Linux server and I use a very out of date PC (at least 4 years old) and it runs everything very nicely and almost straight out of the box. That's one of the beauties of Linux, it can have fewer hardware demands than Windows for basically doing the same thing.

[Edd Turtle]

It is very easy to do with Ubuntu Linux. The hardest bit is setting up the firewall setting in Linux. On Ubuntu go to the console and type something like "apt-get install apache". Then you have to set up the config file which is called "httpd.conf" and may require some looking for because I've forgotten where it is ... ermm is think /var/www/ .

Hope that helps even a little bit.

[akash011]

i would search around or there might be a servers for dumbs book but aside from that i would go with Apache you can download it for free

[sebi123]

well not sure where you can find a guide i would search around or there might be a servers for dumbs book but aside from that i would go with Apache you can download it for free and its suppose to be the most stable server



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