Thread: I need to turn my Home PC into a Web Server

what the easiest way to turn my Home PC into a Web Server?

if this happened can i upload anything from my seedbox to my PC,am i right?



thnx in advance.

Download - The Apache HTTP Server Project You want Win32 binary version. Install and create a firewall exception for port 8080 and 80. Done.

If you want someone uploading to your computer you need an FTP server software.

+1 On recommending apache, this is what I use and it works great.

Read your ISP contract.
Here on Brazil, for example, common end-user connection is not suitable for hosting webserver ( and even the contract say that it is not allowed ).

Also, if you want a webserver with webpages, you might want to have besides apache, PHP and possibly some database ( mysql or postgresql ).

If you only want it as an seedbox or file storage, you don't need apache. You might need to setup FTP and a torrent client

Just download and configure xampp. Installs all the services mentioned above in one.

Apache is the most used web server, but maybe you may want to use Cherokee, which has a web based interface for configuration. Anyway, both will fit your needs.

You should probably be a little more specific on what exactly you want to do, in order to give you more accurate help.
Of course Apache and Cherokee are two great web servers, but I am not sure that this is what you actually want to use. FTP would be better if all you want to do is upload stuff from your seedbox to your home pc. Rsync is even better, and by searching you can also find other sync software that will give you more functionality that you might require.

Assuming you are using Windows, someone else might provide better info than me. Be very careful what you upload on a web server. All the data will be accessible by everyone, and of course would be subject to copyright claims.

Other than that, make sure you have a static IP address or a DynDNS/similar service.

I echo what progtologist said.

XAMPP (which I use) and the like are great, but overkill for what you want really. An FTP server such as LFTP might be better suited towards your needs. Rsync would be a good automatic choice also.

Would like to clarify something in the way you phrased your OP

what the easiest way to turn my Home PC into a Web Server?

Using your Home PC as a web server would do nothing towards your goal of downloading files from your seedbox. It would be your seedbox that you'd need to install http/ftp servers on. The server is installed at the place where your files are, while a client (such as a web browser or ftp client like FileZilla) is used to access those files.

Please take note that, it is highly unrecommended to use XAMPP has a live webserver. This is because XAMPP has been created to have 0 security features turned on for pure development purposes.

It is highly recommended to manually install the WAMP stack or you could download WAMP sever itself.