Comments on: Host A Web Server on Your Home PC

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:53:22 +0000

I need some help, I did a self test and the test says I am behind the router what does that me. Please help me out. Thanks.

By: Pradeep

Pradeep — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:43:33 +0000

Dear Ashish:

Thanks for the excellent steps outlined .
I followed all the steps to dot ,however I am faced with following problem :

1)I registered the domain with no-ip.com .The website opens perfectly well on my pc when I try to open through HFS. However when I try through web browser ,it can’t connect .

Can you please suggest what can be possibly wrong ?

Cheers,
Pradeep

By: Adnan

Adnan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:20:57 +0000

Nice article. The software helped. I was just trying to learn ajax and I needed a web server to try out the samples. Apache was too much advanced. This software is pretty easy. thnx

By: Cristian

Cristian — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:27:15 +0000

Nifty little program. Domain name is optional.

Thanks

By: sunil

sunil — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:26:33 +0000

Hi i am facing same problem

My website does not open anywhere neither in my pc nor anywhere else using the
domain name given by no-ip.com
When i write that domain name in my browser it opens my router configurations.
When it is entered in some other PC on WAN it says url not reachable or a similar
error.
Can u help me please…

By: Kailas Deshmukh

Kailas Deshmukh — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:11:08 +0000

Hi Ashish,
We have a local community website that mostly has html pages. We want to enhance it to include some interactive matrimonial section. Somebody volunteered to provide us with web server to host our application but it didn’t work out. So now we are looking to use my home desktop (P4, 1.5 GB Ram) as a web server. Our application front end is developed in flex, database is my SQL and interface between front-end and DB uses Java/XML. We really want to use apache as we use the same for development.
Do you think your approach will work for us?

Thanks
Kailash

By: BAA

BAA — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:09:56 +0000

Could hosting be done on an older PC if the purpose is a simple resume site? I have an ancient P4 with 128MB of RAM sitting in my closet. I would wipe the hard drive and use it for that purpose only.

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By: Anurag

Anurag — Sun, 24 May 2009 11:12:50 +0000

i tried this..and clear allmost all the stages successfully but when i open the website it always open the interface of my adsl modem instead of my website.which i ve configured also with the help of “root to real folder” button.
please help me

By: Ashish Mohta

Ashish Mohta — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:53:21 +0000

@Blogcrowds : I never estimated it for such huge traffic. If you want a site which you can share it with friends this could be best solution. Yes Apache is but not sure if we can replace Apache with HFS here.