How To Turn Your Home PC Into A Web Server

How To Turn Your Home
PC Into A Web Server :-

Web server can refer to either a hardware or a software (of a
computer) that helps to deliver content that can be accessed
through the Internet.The most common use of web servers is to
host web sites but there are other uses like data storage or for
running enterprise applications.

Before getting into the actual process, let's look at a couple of
real-world situations that explain why you may want to turn
your home computer into a web server:-

Situation 1. Say you have music MP3s, documents and other
important files on the hard drive of your home computer. If you
turn this home computer into a web server, you will be able to
access all these files from office or any other Internet
connected machine including your mobile phone.

Situation 2. You have some personal photographs that you
want to share with other family members. You can either upload
these pictures online to a site like Flickr or better still, just
convert the computer into a web server. Now you can connect
the camera to the computer, transfer the digital pictures to some
designated folder and they'll instantly become available to your
friends and family anywhere in the world.

Situation 3. You want to host a website on the internet but the
web hosting jargon like FTP, DNS, etc. is way too complex for
you. The workaround therefore is that you setup a web server on
your home computer (it's easy) and then host a website in
seconds without spending a single penny on external web
hosting services.

Now if any of the above reasons look convincing enough, here's
how you can convert your Windows Machine Into a Web
server ;


How to Turn Your Home Computer Into a Web Server,
Things You Need-

1. Xampp -XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution
containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy
to install and to use - just download, extract and start.
Enjoy !