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| Do you want to publish the website you've made recently? You can setup your own web server or you can buy some web space at a hosting provider. In Windows XP it is possible to install your own. Furthermore you can install FTP so you can also make it possible to download and upload files to you your computer. Do you want to install a web-, a FTP- or SMTP server? It is possible in Windows XP. If you have installed these services you don't need a hosting provider and you can publish your website from your own computer. How to install these services? Below I will explain how to create an own web-, FTP- or SMTP server. Step 1: |
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In this screen you click the 'Add/Remove Windows Components' button.
The next screen is shown.
Step 3:
In this screen you can add or remove several Windows components, like removing Windows Media Player, removing Internet Explorer (for example if you have another browser) but also here you can add the web-, FTP- and SMTP server.
To add these services you click on 'Internet Information Services (IIS)'. Do not check the checkbox but click on the name. Then you click the 'Details' button.
The next screen is shown.
Step 4:
Here you see several services which can be installed.
If you want to install a web server you click on 'World Wide Web Service' and the again 'Details' button.
If you also want to install FTP you check the checkbox 'File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Service'. Here are no further details.
If you want to install a SMTP you click the 'SMTP Service' and click 'Details'. In the next screen you check the checkbox 'SMTP Service' and click 'Ok'.
If you've selected 'World Wide Web Service' and clicked the 'Details' button the next screen is shown.
Step 5:
In this screen you check the checkbox 'World Wide Web Service' to install it and click 'Ok'. Click 'Ok' until you return to the Wizard.
If you click 'Next' the selected services will be installed on your computer.After the components are installed the next screen is shown and now you can use your computer as web-, FTP- and mail server.
On your C drive there is a now a new folder called Inetpub. Here you find the folder wwwroot. In this folder you store your website. To test if everything works fine you open your browser and type http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 to call you website. This opens the index.html in the c:Inetpubwwwroot.
If you have a small network and you use a router you need to forward port 80 to the IP address of the computer where your website is running. This is necessary to publish your website to the world.
If you also have FTP installed you must forward port 21 to the IP address of the computer where your website is running.
If you also have SMTP (=Mail) installed you must forward port 25 to the IP address of the computer where your website is running.
After you have forwarded the port(s) to your you can call your website by typing the IP address of your network at home. This IP address must be the external IP address which you can find here: http://www.whatismyip.com.
So if you are IN your home network you can call your website by typing http://localhost.
If you are NOT in your home network you can call your website by typing http://YourIpAddress.
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