Setting up a server on existing machine

[drj31]

Hey all-
I'm a beginner in the PC world and having been working in the realm of designing and developing websites. I really want to learn how to set up a website that accesses a database and was wondering how to set up my machine so that it acts like a server??? do i set up a partition? I'm really just clueless in this area and was wondering if anyone could help or point me in the right direction? I'm running Win2K. Thanks for any help.
-Jimmy

 

[Jocsta]

This isnt really the right forum for web related questions, but to start you off in the right direction - look for info on PWS (personal web server - comes with win2k), Apache (open source webserver-highly recommended) or IIS (Microsoft Internet Information Server - not free)

Try asking for more info in one of the web related forums, but work out exactly what you want to know - at the moment your basically saying teach me everything, but the answer potentially covers about a dozen different subjects...

 

[PAndersen]

See:

http://www.pinoy7.com/w3corner/webserver.htm

http://www.personalhomenetworks.com/introduction/overview/Webserver.htm

 

[CitrixEngineer]

forum65
forum83
and

http://www.apache.org

Apache is a decent, reasonably secure webserver, and runs as a service under Windows 2000. It installs like a charm - and all relevant instructions are on the website.

Ensure you have a decent firewall as well.

You could get an old 386 PC and run Linux/IPChains as a basic firewall - which would also allow NAT, to keep your internal server invisible to the internet.

http://linuxnewbies.editthispage.com/tips/20000706

This could probably run under Cygwin - but the key here is to make your website as secure as possible before allowing Joe Hacker anywhere near it.

I would advise only starting on the database once your website is properly locked down.

Hope this helps CitrixEngineer@yahoo.co.uk