How To Setup Personal Web Hosting ?

[itssami 0]

Hey... how people start making there own hosting ?? i know they need server which should be on all the day.. im not gonna do that but i just want to learn how this thing works.um.. i have windows xp on my laptop.. and it doesnt have iis.. so i have installed , easyphp.. it contains apache server..and now when on my computer , internet browser , LOCALHOST , it opens the server page..that there's some server running and for example if i put some website in root directory , it runs.. LOCALHOST/index.php , its mean all websites which i will put in root directory , they will work in my computer only..
its mean its working fine ,right ? and now , lets suppose i have a domain, domain.com , and if i want to host that domain , so that it can open to all internet , like websites do.. what i will have to do ?? how i can set NS1 and NS2 for my website ?? as i mentioned that i am just interested to know how it works..so please , no one should have any problem in explaining in details.

[sxyloverboy 0]

You cant really get full dns capabilitis with your current coniguration/hardware i dont think. There might be some things you can install to get it. i guess it works over ip then. youll have ns1.yourip and ns2.yourip or somehting like that.

if you want to have a domain forward to your computer you can find out your ip on https://www.whatismyip.com/ and then make it forward to there. im not sure if all domain hosts offer sending it toan ip but i think they should. if not there is always http://www.noip.com/ that also offers free subdomains for it.

so lets say you sign up for itssami.no-ip.com then url for LOCALHOST/index.htm would be http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/.

hope that answeres you questions.

[itssami 0]

Yeah , thanks for you detailed answer..but can you figure out , which are the some other things what i need to install to get my own dns ?? like, na1.mydomain.com etc ... ?? my laptop conguration is Intel Centrino 1.7 Ghz.. and 512 mb memory etc.. isnt it enough ? what thing i should have in my computer to get full capabilities , as you mentioned ??thanks

 

 

You cant really get full dns capabilitis with your current coniguration/hardware i dont think. There might be some things you can install to get it. i guess it works over ip then. youll have ns1.yourip and ns2.yourip or somehting like that.

 

if you want to have a domain forward to your computer you can find out your ip on https://www.whatismyip.com/ and then make it forward to there. im not sure if all domain hosts offer sending it toan ip but i think they should. if not there is always http://www.noip.com/ that also offers free subdomains for it.

 

so lets say you sign up for itssami.no-ip.com then url for LOCALHOST/index.htm would be http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/.

 

hope that answeres you questions.

 

[Inspiron 0]

Actually you don't really need to setup anything related to NS or whatsoever. You can also go to http://www.noip.com/ and register a free account, then signup for a free domain there and link to your computer's current internet IP address. Give the NS (nameservers) at no-ip.com about 5 minutes to update their records. After that, try going to the new domain which you just registered, you should now see the contents on your computers, now hosted on the internet. So whoever that accesses that domain name will point to your computer's host directory.

[itssami 0]

@Inspiron : You said same thing what the guy above said...if i will register the account on no-ip.com , in that way , they will give me a sub domain , for example , itssami.no-ip.com , and then this subdomain will redirect to my files at my localhost...but im asking , if i want to use my own domain , for example , itssami.com , it will not help in that case... i want to know how to set up hosting for my own domain on my own local host.

 

 

Actually you don't really need to setup anything related to NS or whatsoever. You can also go to http://www.noip.com/ and register a free account, then signup for a free domain there and link to your computer's current internet IP address.