How to setup a web server by yourself

This small tutorial will guide you through building your own “web server”. It is 2.30am but thought of sharing this with you as I would probably forget this in few hours 😀

<<how to get a host name for dynamic IP owners using dyndns–will be added later, in the mean time you can try this out by your self though, damn easy hehe >>

Checklist

• XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html)
• dyndns account (http://www.dyndns.com)
• dyndns updater (http://cdn.dyndns.com/windows/DynUpSetup.exe)

XAMPP comes with Apache, mySQL, PHP and many more built in, so you don’t need to worry about the boring installation and configuration.

For this I’m using a Prolink Hurricane 5201 router.

Assuming that you have installed XAMPP, let’s start by adding a port forward in our router

But before that fireup command prompt and enter

ipconfig

Write down the IPV4 address on a paper

I open the router configuration page by entering http://192.168.1.1 in the browser.

Then goto Firewall->Port Forwarding and add the following settings + the IP address that you got earlier



Ok, then goto Advance->DDNS and add your dyndns account credentials

Note: remember to “save” on each router configuration step. This button comes at the bottom left whenever we make a change.

That’s it! We did it!

Now edit your httpd.conf which is located at C:\xampp\apache\conf and modify the following lines

ServerName yourdns.dyndns.biz:80

DocumentRoot “C:/xampp/htdocs/YourDir”

DocumentRoot “C:/xampp/htdocs/YourDir”

AllowOverride All  (This comes about 20 lines below the above line)

Now restart the apache daemon using Xampp control panel.

Test this by going to a proxy server like ninjacloak.com and entering http://yourdns.dyndns.biz. I was unable to load this without a proxy.. Wonder why…

Good luck