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Gaming Arena => Gaming and Technology => Topic started by: BlueKitsune S on Jul 07 2007, 10:38 PM

Title: Useing an computer as a web server
Post by: BlueKitsune S on Jul 07 2007, 10:38 PM

Ya so name says all. I know it has the power and i dont mind letting it run all the time help please o.o

Title: Useing an computer as a web server
Post by: Samui on Jul 08 2007, 09:33 AM

You would want to get Apache (http://httpd.apache.org), PHP (http://www.php.net), and MySQL (http://www.mysql.com).

Installing those would be the first step. :P

Title: Useing an computer as a web server
Post by: BlueKitsune S on Jul 08 2007, 04:53 PM

What OS? The one I'm going to use is running windows 98 (Soon to be linux maybe)

Title: Useing an computer as a web server
Post by: Samui on Jul 08 2007, 04:58 PM

Not sure how well it would work on Win98. That might go over as well as a fart in church. I would recommend Ubuntu. In which case, setting things up would be easy.

Title: Useing an computer as a web server
Post by: Taoki on Jul 08 2007, 06:26 PM

Win 98 is very old, you should upgrade to XP for now. Otherwise, I never looked into that much so unfortunately I don't know, but it is most likely not too hard so yeah

Title: Useing an computer as a web server
Post by: The Light on Jul 08 2007, 08:24 PM

Go with the upgrade to linux, chances are it'll crash way less.  Windows servers are known to be easier to work with but crash a lot more.  Oh and thanks for the unintentional advice there, I wasn't sure which linux OS I should get myself.  ^_^

Title: Useing an computer as a web server
Post by: Samui on Jul 09 2007, 07:57 AM

Also, it is easier to upgrade stuff on Ubuntu than on Windows. They're pretty good about rolling out security updates and stuff. All you have to do is run: apt-get update; apt-get upgrade.

Title: Useing an computer as a web server
Post by: BlueKitsune S on Jul 09 2007, 04:55 PM

Oh wow thanks  :)  I'm gonna get to work on that now. Thanks again.

EDIT

Eh this PC is good but i hope it will do.

Kubuntu 7.1

512 RAM

20Gb HDD

older then 1999 BIOS

a Pentium 3

And some old nivida video card

Think it will work?

Title: Useing an computer as a web server
Post by: Sasha on Apr 02 2008, 08:00 PM

Of course it'll work. I've run servers on absolute -dinosaurs- of rigs. Remember the old Compaqs with a Pentium I, 1-10GB of space, 64-128MB of RAM, etc? Yeah. It's a good thing you have an nVidia card, though, because the ATI drivers for Linux are notoriously stupid. Not that you'd need DRI support anyway. Shrugs.