How I Built
my own website.
It's not so
difficult as it may seem.I first tried to set up a webserver at home but my ISP wouldn't let it happen. It is probably much more secure not to have a webserver at home anyway. I bought some web space as the freebies are very restrictive or full of ads. Mine came from Streamline.net which cost me about £29 for two years with a .org.uk domain name.
All the software you need is free and I eventually found stuff easy to load and use. I did have a few false starts.
Although I haven't built a webserver at home, having some means of checking what you doing and building a complete web site at home before uploading to the web is in my view essential.
Setting up
Go to Control Panel
Add/Remove software
Add/Remove windows components
If you have a line that says Internet Information Services (IIS) uncheck it
You now need to install AppServ which is available at http://sourceforge.net/project/
To obtain the latest version (win-32) type 'AppServ' in the find field then click 'downloads'.
Download 'AppServ Open Project'
Install 'AppServ'
- select 'Apache HTTP Server'
-for Server name (host) - I used 'localhost' for local testing purposes otherwise use your internet URL
-for email use your own email address.
A folder 'C:\Appserv' will have been created with a sub-folder called 'www'. This is where all the web documents go.
For a web authoring package I used Nvu http://www.nvu.com
Install Nvu
Start building web pages and save them with any images to c:\appserv\www . I learned the bare bones of Nvu from The Haynes Manual borrowed from the library.
Build Your Own Website - The complete step-by-step guide to creating a website. By: Kyle MacRae. ISBN: 9781844251162
Once you've got all that sorted you will need web space and some means of uploading the files.
You will need something like AutoFTP http://www.primasoft.com/ftp.htm
Finally, you require Active Perl. Download, install and forget about it!
Active Perl http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/
There is lots on the web about building your own website. Give it a go if you get the time.
For more detail see a .pdf file of an article I wrote for The GEO Quarterly #15 Sept 2007
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