Have you ever wanted to set your own bandwidth/disk space
limiters with just the right price on a web hosting plan?
Well, technically, now you can... but it's entirely
up to you to maintain it. In this short and easy
tutorial, we are going set up a local
web server which only we can access (for now). There are
only three steps and this should only take us about
5 minutes!
You will need to download:
PHP 5.0.0 zip package (7mb) and
apache_2.0.50-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi (6mb)
This is our goal... to create a functional web server:
[ an example
of what you will see when apache is installed correctly ]
Step 1 - Arranging everything in a neat
and orderly fashion
Following this tutorial will assure you a working web server
for Windows! (Tested on WinXP)
Let us make a root directory which we can house all
our web apps so they can be readily accessed with style.
Make a folder in your local drive called 'Web'. I used
the C drive as my example.
[ a shortened version of my C
drive ]
Heh.. well done on completing step one. We
have just set the locale of the base which we will be
working off of. With the first step done in such an easy
manner, the next two will be a breeze.
Continue to step two - installing
Apache 2.0.50