in the tutorial "How to Setup a Home Server" - the author says that he doesn't know whether the tutorial works for Windows XP. Has anyone worked out how to get it to work with XP?

If you have, an you tell me?

cheers

also, how do you create new toolbars in ie in windows xp?

yes, i have created my own server and im running on XP Home

and yes you can create new toolbars in IE in windows XP.

im not in my house now, but as soon as i get there ill tell you how.

welcome to webmater-talk by the way.

ok im at home. One of our members here has a wonderful tutorial on setting up a home sever. I forgot the website, but its the one that helped me.

well you will just basically need Apache, PHP 4.0 and WinMySQL

then you juts configure these in MS-DOS (command prompt) , this will take a nice 30 minutes-1 hour of your life.

after just create a folder (anywhere) labeled (whatever you want) and just create shortcuts to: Start MySQL , folder to htdocs , phpMyAdmin , http://localhost , and your favorite PHP/HTML editor.

then just right click on Taskbar, select Toolbars, click on New Toolbar. and just click on the new folder you just made.

and you got yourself a toolbar.

php , apache and winSQL seems to work fine on Windows XP, you just have to run the winsql-nt instead of the winsql.
its definitely worth to have a home server, as to you can view php files offline and stuff.

hope that helps
-Josh

Originally posted by Digital-SyntaX
in the tutorial "How to Setup a Home Server" - the author says that he doesn't know whether the tutorial works for Windows XP. Has anyone worked out how to get it to work with XP?

If you have, an you tell me?

cheers

Let me try to understand her with a home server you your own host, you can have a web site on the net.....

could you try to explain what it is please??

with your own server you can view php files offline. as well as you can yes have your own host and a website on the net.

all you need to do is just connect to the ip address and it will display whatever is there.

so pretty much it works offline as well as online. its great

hey ghettocars ..
what's the apache version you're using?
I can't get it to work and I'm about to go insane


by the way ..
hi people!! as you can see this is my first post ..

i'm not using the latest version - i'm using the versioins they set out in the tutorial.

you do not need php nor mysql to run a home server. That is the decision of the Server Admin and what code he and/or his clients write. By the way, He didnt not specify if wanted to run a FTP server or Web Server.

where can i find this turtorial?

i want to know too! pls post it!

For setting up your own home server check out www.dslwebserver.com , it's where I started over 2+ years ago. It's a great resouruce!

Check out my home server setup at www.2700.us I host 5 of my websites from that machine with no bandwidth problem.

Windows XP come with IIS so u really do have your own Web Server when u install win XP even a SMTP server to send mail, DNS hehehe if you have WinXP Pro thats is....

try http://www.windows2000faq.com

when you install it automaticaly works... !!! all you have to do it copy the HTML or ASP what ever pages to the

c:\inetpub\wwwroot\

well if you need to run PHP or MySQL u can install that too