Run Your Own Home Web Server

Martin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:43:42 +0000

Running a home web server can be advantageous or even the only solution depending on its purpose. All those dedicated web server providers do not help much for instance if all you want to do is to setup a web server for a home network. Home Web Server is a software to run a web server on a local Windows computer system. It is developed by the same developers who created Home FTP Server. This immediately becomes obvious after looking at the interfaces of both server applications.

Home Web Server makes it possible to run websites on the local computer system. The web server supports a wide variety of options including php, cgi and isapi support next to SSL connections and private member directories. Not everything is preinstalled on the other hand. It is for example necessary to download PHP compiler from the official PHP website to add PHP support.

Basic HTML websites are on the other hand available by default. The root of the web server can be accessed locally by opening http://127.0.0.1/ in the web browser if the connection is established from the local computer. Users from the local network or remote networks need to use the local or Internet IP to connect to the web server.

Many aspects of the web server can be configured in the options including connection limits and timeouts, domain and root aliases, connection logging, supported mime types or redirects.

Home Web Server provides extensive options that should suite the needs of most users who want to install a web server on their computer. Alternatives are Quick PHP Web Server, XAMPP web server or the Portable Web Server.

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Run Your Own Home Web Server

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