Host A Web Server On Your Home PC

Many of us have at some point toyed with the idea of hosting a Web site. But be it the prohibitive Web hosting costs of days long gone by, or how complex we’ve imagined it to be, or just plain laziness, few of us have actually7 gotten down to doing it! The fact is, it can be done for free, and it’s just about as difficult as maintaining a blog. Here’s a workshop on how to go about it.

Download and Run The Software

Head to www.rejetto.com/hfs/?f=di and download Http File Server (HFS). Its is free and open source, and is a standalone executable that requires no installation.

On XP with SP2, when you run HFS, you will be asked about whether or not to allow hfs.exe to connect to the Internet. Unblock HFS. Likewise, if you have a third-party firewall installed, configure it appropriately. Read the rest of this entry »