How Do You Set Up A Home-Based Internet Server?
A home-based Internet server is a computer running software that will allow other computers to download documents and information from it. Even this text that you’re reading right now has to pass over a network computer from an Internet server to your Web browser. A server requires a full-time, high-speed Internet connection. Standard professional Internet servers are almost always noisy machines in windowless, temperature-controlled facilities. However, it’s possible to run a home-based Internet server from the comfort of your own home. Disable any and all programs and security software running on your PC. If you don’t do this, the installation of your server software will likely crash or the installation won’t work. After you install the server software, you can restart these programs. Download the free Apache HTTP server (see Resources). Initiate the “Installation” wizard and accept all of the default settings. When you see the screen asking for server information, enter your own em
