Setting Up A Server

ghosstt · Post by **ghosstt** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:16 pm

Well, I have an old ME machine (got it to reformat and such

), and i was wondering if I could set this up as a server perse..

Post by **Skyone** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:36 pm

Not ME, no.

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:38 pm

XAMPP.

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Apache, MySQL, PHP, PHPmyAdmin, Filezilla Server, all served up in one easy to use installer. It's an instant web server. (Just add an OS.) Everything comes preconfigured, so all you have to do is reboot and add your own web files.

Of course you will only be able to get to your new server machine from your home network.

Just set up the FTP server so you have a login whose root is the web root folder and you can add files easily. (Enter the IP address in the address bar on your desktop, enter the login, then drag and drop.)

You might get better performance out of it if you use that mini XP you mentioned in your other thread instead of ME. ME is junk. (It's like the 20'th century's Vista.)

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:00 pm

bicostp wrote: Of course you will only be able to get to your new server machine from your home network.

Not so. If you forward port 80 from your router to the server, you can access it from any internet connection (unless your ISP blocks port 80; mine (AT&T) doesn't). It will be outrageously slow from outside your network (dependent on your upload speed), but you will be able to do it. I host a proxy at my house on my Ubuntu server for use at school (shh; don't tell anyone

), and I also put phpBB forums on there for the hell of it.

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:15 pm

You can have it set up as a public server, but you shouldn't due to the massive security risk. (Really you would have to have two routers: one as the initial blocker to make a 'jail' for the web server, and one behind that one set up to keep the rest of your machines safe.) Most of the time, default router settings won't let you.

ghosstt · Post by **ghosstt** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:01 pm

Thanks Bic. Ill look more into that this weekend (finals this week)

project_failure · Post by **project_failure** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:53 am

Apache, MySQL, PHP, PHPmyAdmin, Filezilla Server, all served up in one easy to use installer. It's an instant web server. (Just add an OS.) Everything comes preconfigured, so all you have to do is reboot and add your own web files.

Definitely going to check this out. Thanks Bic.

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:22 pm

project_failure wrote:
Apache, MySQL, PHP, PHPmyAdmin, Filezilla Server, all served up in one easy to use installer. It's an instant web server. (Just add an OS.) Everything comes preconfigured, so all you have to do is reboot and add your own web files.
Definitely going to check this out. Thanks Bic.

I've used it too (granted under Linux) and it works right away, and is really simple. So, go for it!