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 [...]
Run a local proxy server
I was so excited to write this article that I could not sleep well all night. Yesterday I have written an article that explained how you could setup a webserver on your computer and use it to display websites or share files with your friends. Today I’m going to show you how to use this webserver to host a local proxy server that you can access from anywhere on the net to surf sites that are blocked at your current location.
Host your own webserver
It is relatively easy to use your home computer running Windows to become a webserver that is accessible from anywhere. The following method is highly flexible and makes it possible to host websites, documents and files on that server and protect the contents with passwords if so desired. All you need is a software called XAMP which installs the Apache server environment on your computer.
