MySQL http://www.webupon.com/tags/MySQL New posts about MySQL Creating a Free Website From Your Own Computer http://www.webupon.com/Hosting/Creating-a-Free-Website-From-Your-Own-Computer.155549 ello. Today you are going to learn very quick and easy on making a website, right from your own computer that you are working at. Before we begin, let me clear up a few misunderstandings. First, running a website does not affect your computer's speed. Second, you can make this type of server may only be used for Windows. Third and foremost, this is putting your computers at a huge risk. Install a firewall/antivirus before you begin. I will stress this highly throughout the document.

Requirements

  • A Computer (Windows)
  • About 350mb free space (you will need more)
  • An Internet Connection
  • Static IP is recommended over a Dynamic IP, I will discuss this more later.
  • A router may be annoying but also may be safer to use. Again, this is optional.
  • Apache2Triad
  • Computer Security Program

Information

What is Apache 2 Triad?

Apache 2 Triad is a WAMP server. This stands for Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP which are components of the server.

Steps

Installation

  1. Download Apache 2 Triad is you haven't already right here (choose what you want) 
  2. Open the file.
  3. Choose which components that you would need.  A tip would be to only install your primary language.
  4. Choose your destination folder. Tip would be to format an extra drive and use that
  5. Now set your password
  6. Agree and let it install
  7. Finish up the installation.

Running It

  1. Test that your server is running by going to your internet browser and going to http://localhost/apache2triad.   If it doesn't work than go to Start->All Programs-.Apache2triad->Apache2triad Monitor and turn on Apache
  2. Now go to where you installed it and go to the folder "htdocs". There you can put in your files. Your homepage (http://localhost on your computer) must be named index.html. If something requires MYSQL then go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin

Making It Public

  1. Find out your IP
  2. Go ask a friend to go to your IP (Set up a homepage first). If it works then go to the next step.  If it doesn't work then you may need to port forward port 80.  Use this guide.
  3. Now make your IP secure by going to DynDNS or No-IP
  4. Your site will be access by that new domain. (Ex.mysite.no-ip.net)
  5. Your IP may change if you have a dynamic IP. If you have a cable modem or dial-up then you probably have a dynamic IP. Use “FREEping” to keep your server busy and allow it to stay the same. Download FREEping here.

Domain Names

Can you afford a domain or a website like .com or .net? Then buy one on the web. I buy mine from NameAdmin. Once you buy one. Go to the domain management and check to see if you can go to the DNS settings (They may call it Total DNS on your domain). Then find the A record and change it to your IP. Wait 48 hours and it should work.

I hope you learned a bit here. I will soon post a guide on making a little more complex site.

]]> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:23:30 PST Creating a Blog Without PHP and Mysql http://www.webupon.com/Blogging/Creating-a-Blog-Without-PHP-and-Mysql.48004 So why do you want to use a webspace without PHP and MySQL when nearly every hosting package includes these features today? There are different answers for this. The first is cheap hosting, where you may have PHP but mostly no database installed for you. The second is basically if you don´t want any scripting to be involved in presenting your webpage or blog to your clients. This may fall into the category of search engine optimisations, where dynamically generated webpages are bad for search engine spiders like the Googlebot. Static webpages can be crawled way better then dynamic ones. In my personal case it was a webspace provided by my DSL provider, which has neither PHP nor a MySQL database included. So I was looking for a way to create a blog without these features.

After doing some research on Google and Sourceforge, I finally found a nice piece of software called Thingamablog. This program is free to download so I gave it a try and was fascinated about its features. Thingamablog is programmed in Java so you need to download the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in order to run the application. You can use it either on Windows or Linux. You also need your webspace FTP account data to actually transfer your blog onto your webserver (you can also publish your blog posts locally on your harddrive for first testing the software). Thingamablog is a desktop blogging software and can be used like a content management system (CMS).

Setting up your own Blog

Thingamablog works with templates and so called template tags, which are filled with data like blog posts, the name of the author or description tags. After that the software generates Html-pages from these templates which are published on your webspace. When you start the application you will be presented with a wizard that guides you in setting up your blog. First you have to enter some informations regarding your webspace, namely the Base-Path of your blog (like "http://www.mywebsite.com/blog/") and the Base-URL (like "/htdocs/blog"). The Base-URL is the path where Thingamablog publishes your blog posts to, ask your webhost for more details regarding this adress. If you want to publish your blog on your local harddrive you must enter different paths. Your Base-Path should be something like "/C:/Mywebsite/blog" (notice the first slash before your actual path!), the Base-URL is the same adress plus the prefix "file://", so you would have "file:///C:/Mywebsite/blog" as your Base-Path. I know this sounds a bit difficult, but you luckily have to set it up ownly once.

When you proceed with the wizard, you have to type in your blog title and a description. Right after this you can enter some categories (or call it Tags) in order to arrange your different posts later. The same goes for blog authors, which is the next step within the wizard. You can assign different writers for the same blog. Next comes the design part, where you have to choose from a list of different templates provided with the installation of Thingamablog. You can also download different templates from the web (use a Google search for it) or even create your own one. If you want to develop your own template you have to play with template tags, so I would suggest looking into the help files that come with the installation. The last step before you can actually begin blogging is entering your FTP account data. Thingamablog needs your publishing path, your user name and password, which are all provided by your webhost. If you want to publish locally, simply select "local" in the drop-down list. Right after this you are ready for blogging and please notice, that you can change your blog configuration at any time, so if you made a mistake it´s no problem.

Start Blogging

Now you can start blogging. The whole process of writing and publishing posts is self-explaining. First you will write a new post, the you choose one or more categories. After this you can either save your post as a draft or save and publish it. Notice that you can change the posts Html-code, simply choose the tab at the bottom of the editor window. Play around with Thingamablogs features (I suggest you first publish locally to test out the software). There are a lot more things you can do with it. For example you can drive Thingamablog to ping different servers, use it as a feed reader to stay up to date or publish your pictures with it.

If you need further instructions, visit this nice tutorial about Using Thingamablog or this Forum, where you can also find informations about setting up commenting functions for your blog, which would be impossible without PHP or other scripting languages.

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