Susie,

If you're just using it for yourself (that is, you want to run files on =
your own computer, not start your own .com site) then it's relatively =
easy.  Normally I wouldn't be able to make a statement about that, but, =
as it happens, I decided to answer that question for myself this =
morning.

I'm running Win98 here on my laptop, where I have installed ActivePerl =
(www.activestate.com, I'm primarily a CGI guy) and the Win32 version of =
Apache (www.apache.org/httpd).  I installed both and now I seem to have =
a fully functional web site.  There is a file called httpd.conf in the =
Apache conf directory which configures the server, and each section of =
the file explains things pretty nicely, and it comes with lots of =
documentation which the server is more than happy to serve to you once =
it's running.  I set the BindAddress and ServerName to 127.0.0.1 so that =
it only responds to requests on this computer (that's the IP address =
that a computer calls itself), and if you use http://127.0.0.1 you get =
your own server on your own computer, and no one else can access it.

I fully intend to debug everything on my computer now, then only send it =
to the server when necessary.  :)  It was one thing to see my HTML =
documents in Arachnophilia, but I needed that server to run the perl =
scripts.

HTH,

Brian A. Sayrs
Owner, Southwind Solutions


-----Original Message-----
From:	susie [SMTP:susie(at)execpc.com]
Sent:	Friday, April 07, 2000 10:30 AM
To:	hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
Subject:	Server Question

Hi,=20
What does it take to run ones own server?
Thanks,
:)
Susie

Susie
http://mindmills.net
Turning the windmills of your mind.

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