[mayya]

Q. What are the software and hardware requirements to run a web server?

[ITstudent2006]

Here is an overview. THere is quite abit to learn if this is your first time, others can set up a web server and site in no time.

1. Find your web server computer. The computer should be able to store a lot of information. The processor is not very important. If you have a router, the computer should be directly connected to that router and not wireless to minimize server downtime.

2. Get a good web server program. The program runs the web server so it is very important. If possible, find a program that can run in the background without making your computer unusable. One of the more popular web servers is Apache.

3. Configure the web server. Normally the web server program has a guide on how to do this.

4. Create a basic main page to test the server. Make sure that you put this file in your web server's document path and name it as one of the index files.

5. Check that you can see the website from http://127.0.0.1/. If you see the site continue to the next step. If your server does not run on port 80 then test your site on http://127.0.0.1:portnumber/. You may need to reconfigure your web server if you can't see this site at all.

6. Get a friend to test your site on http://yourWANip/. If he/she sees the site then continue on. If not, check some of the tips on your guide.

7. Purchase a domain and set it to your WAN ip. If you have a dynamic ip, make sure that the domain registrar has dynamic DNS services.

8. Make your site.

[mayya]

Thanks for such a great help.

[ScottGem]

Rick gave a good answer, but, if you are considering putting up a website I would NOT do it yourself. You can subscribe to a WEB hosting service for as little as $10/month. If you are putting up a site, you have to pay for commercial bandwidth, security and maintenance that will cost you WAY more than that. Using a host service is much more cost efficient.

[NeedKarma]

Looks like a copy/pasted homework question anyway.

[mayya]

Thanks for your consideration but I have just asked about requirements.

[ITstudent2006]

SG- You are correct. I am actually contemplating making one for my brothers site. Ill PM you a link and ask for your insight and whether he should stick with the free hosting site/blog he already has or if it would be beneficial to do it himself.

NK- You are correct, didn't really pay attention until you said something.

[mayya]

Well that's not the actual copied/pasted homework question anyway but it somehow relates to my homework. And I think its not bad to ask for help!

[NeedKarma]

Well that's not the actual copied/pasted homework question anyway but it somehow relates to my homework. And I think its not bad to ask for help!

Well usually when you have the "Q." in front of the text it certainly doesn't look like someone typed it. :)

[mayya]

So for the proof may I COPY/PASTE the real Q then? :)