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I dont really know much about getting one going, but I want to experiment and try hosting my own site. I have a box built right now for use as a server but im not quite sure what I need to do to get things working so it will be ready for serving. I currently have XP Professional installed. Should I use a different OS and can I even use XP for web serving? I know there are some additional services I need to install, maybe just IIS, but again, im not quite sure. Right now I only plan to have an HTML site but sometime in the future I will want to have PHP, CGI, MYSQL ... but im not worrying about that right now.
This isnt going to be serious right now, I just want to learn how to do it. If anyone could give me some pointers as to which OS I should use and what services I need to install it would be greatly appreciated. I tried Google but everthing I got was about buying web hosting : \
This isnt going to be serious right now, I just want to learn how to do it. If anyone could give me some pointers as to which OS I should use and what services I need to install it would be greatly appreciated. I tried Google but everthing I got was about buying web hosting : \