Stupid/Boring computer/website question

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I have a stupid question, maybe someone can point me to a primer to get started.

(How) can I set up a website using an old PC (running XP) and a cable modem? The IP address is dynamic, which may be a problem... I don't care if the website has a www URL, or if it's just referenced by some long convoluted address.

I hate networking. Can someone make this easy for me?

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 4 April 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

no-ip.com and dyndns.org should sort out the name problem. Apache is available for windows but is not as effective as apache on linux.. You could give linux + apache a try it's not too difficult to set up and with Samba you can create a share to allow access to the web directory. If you want a dynamic site then php is much easier to set up on linux, by a country mile and there is plenty of good free content management and blogging software out there that runs on top of php and either the MySQL or PostgreSQL databases.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 April 2005 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

See, that's why I hate networking. WTF is all that? (Thanks for the help, but I don't know what do do with all that...)

No-Ip.com .. that helps, I think. I expect that that will show me how to reference my PC over the internet...

Apache - I guess that means I need to install Apache... And then what? (Suppose I have a webpage called index.html on d:\data.)

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 4 April 2005 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The advantage of using linux is that you can use tools like http://www.webmin.com/ to simplify the configuration for you, you'll not have to edit a config file.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 April 2005 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Apache 2 is fine with Windows.

And then what?

In all seriousness, read the manual.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, it's probably easier than reading the manual.

I can't remember exactly, but where you install it to will have a folder called htdocs underneath it, so maybe:

c:\Program Files\Apache 2\htdocs\

Just stick your HTML docs under there. Dynamic content will become messier, but personally my experience was the one time I set up PHP out of interest was quite easy under Windows, and just getting Linux talking to my wireless network card and then stopping it screwing up the driver at some point later has been difficult. I'm going to buy VMware to simplify the situation.

If I were you and you want dynamic content, I would consider ASP.NET, but I don't want to get into a big argument about which is better. I can leave that for the day job.

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 4 April 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

.NET, making IT pros lives miserable since day one.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 4 April 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

In what way does it make you miserable? As a serious question; I mean, to me, it just combines all the best of breed things about enterprise computing today, much like Java/J2EE. You could probably make a case for the TP monitor stuff being a bit legacy making people interface with old components, but other than that do you have specific problems with it?

― KeefW (kmw), Monday, 4 April 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven years pass...

While shopping on the internet recently, I seem to have had a high proportion of sites blocked by my internet security (Norton) including Cotswold Outdoor (only when I visit my "cart"), Oxford store Objects of Use and some others. Should I worry or just proceed to the stores?

― djh, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 20:55 (nine years ago)

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