I just wanna try it once on a demo site..


Can someone tell me step by step procedure on how to setup hosting from a home PC with a dialup internet connection?

Download Apache. Install it. Move all documents to folder, HTTPDOCS. Open up your browser. Load http://localhost/

Hosting from home requires a few things:

1. You need a fairly fast connection that can upload with speeds of above 500KBps (the standard Cable/DSL connection sends at 128-200KBps). You would need a 3MBps connection to host seriously (which would usually require you to get a business phone line - I haven't talked to a phone company that would give you anything higher than 1.5MBps on a residential line).

2. You need to download and install a web server, such as Apache. www.apache.org.

3. Once Apache is set up, you have to change the IP address that it listens to by default. The IP address should be set to your current IP address (on Windows, to check your current IP, go to Start>Run, type in 'cmd' and then type in 'ipconfig' The second like will give you your current IP address).

4. If you would like to host seriously, you would need to get a static IP address.

5. Also, hosting seriously would require you to install things like PHP and Perl, as well as some other servers, possbly a mail server. You would be best to host on a Linux as it's cheap and more reliable than Windows. However, if hosting on Windows, you would also need to get ASP.

HTH

Thanks for the input. I will just try it once on my box for a demo site.. :D