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I suggest AppServ for Windows with No-IP.
Here's a direct link to the latest version:
http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/appserv/appserv-win32-2.5.7.exe
AppServ 2.5.7 is a package installer that includes:
-Apache 2.2.3
-PHP 5.1.6
-MySQL 5.0.24a
-phpMyAdmin-2.9.0.2
Installation is really straight forward. Here's how I would suggest starting:
1) Install No-IP (see http://appserv.minihost.org/no-ip.html for step-by-step instructions).
2) Install AppServ (see http://appserv.minihost.org/appserv.html for step-by-step instructions).
3) Open port 80 on your router/firewall.
4) Visit your No-IP address to see if it is working.
Good luck!
Here's a direct link to the latest version:
http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/appserv/appserv-win32-2.5.7.exe
AppServ 2.5.7 is a package installer that includes:
-Apache 2.2.3
-PHP 5.1.6
-MySQL 5.0.24a
-phpMyAdmin-2.9.0.2
Installation is really straight forward. Here's how I would suggest starting:
1) Install No-IP (see http://appserv.minihost.org/no-ip.html for step-by-step instructions).
2) Install AppServ (see http://appserv.minihost.org/appserv.html for step-by-step instructions).
3) Open port 80 on your router/firewall.
4) Visit your No-IP address to see if it is working.
Good luck!
Files go into your www folder within your appserv folder. This is usually:
c:\appserv\www\
Publish usually just establishes an FTP connection and FTPs the files to your server. These files exist somewhere on your computer, so find out where your program stores them (check My Documents and the applications Program Files folder). You should be able to copy these web site files right into your www folder.
If for some reason they are not saved on your computer, you can set up an FTP server using FileZilla Server.
http://appserv.minihost.org/filezilla.html (there is a newer version of filezilla server than the one linked to on that site).
You will need to create a user and password and associate a home directory (you want to use c:\appserv\www\).
Once set up, just use localhost (or your internal IP address) as your address of the server you are publishing to, and use the username and password you created earlier. It should connect and then do its thing, and your files should be up.
c:\appserv\www\
Publish usually just establishes an FTP connection and FTPs the files to your server. These files exist somewhere on your computer, so find out where your program stores them (check My Documents and the applications Program Files folder). You should be able to copy these web site files right into your www folder.
If for some reason they are not saved on your computer, you can set up an FTP server using FileZilla Server.
http://appserv.minihost.org/filezilla.html (there is a newer version of filezilla server than the one linked to on that site).
You will need to create a user and password and associate a home directory (you want to use c:\appserv\www\).
Once set up, just use localhost (or your internal IP address) as your address of the server you are publishing to, and use the username and password you created earlier. It should connect and then do its thing, and your files should be up.
One thing I should have mentioned: Your home page should be named something like:
index.html
index.htm
index.php
home.html
etc...
If not, it will just list a directory index when people visit your domain or IP. If your web building software doesn't do this for you, and you see a white page with a listing of a bunch of files, that's probably why. You will need to change the file name (or alter some config files) to make the home page automatically load.
index.html
index.htm
index.php
home.html
etc...
If not, it will just list a directory index when people visit your domain or IP. If your web building software doesn't do this for you, and you see a white page with a listing of a bunch of files, that's probably why. You will need to change the file name (or alter some config files) to make the home page automatically load.
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