Question About Making A Site.

[rockfan15]

I have Abyss Web Server, and I got a question about how I can host my own site? Can someone please tell me how I can do that?

Thanks in advance.
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[admin]

What's Abyss Web Server:
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We recommend reading the user's manual that comes with Abyss Web Server
(chapter 1) or
http://www.aprelium.com/data/abyssws-x1-win-doc-html/intro.html . You'll
find there a small explanation of what a web server is and how to get
started with our software Abyss Web Server.

Generally speaking, It is a software that will help you host your web site
directly on your computer (instead of hosting it on the web provider
computers.)

To host your own web site, you should install Abyss Web Server on your
computer which it should be on 24/24 to have your web site on all the time.

If you can't connect your computer to the Internet 24/24, you can still
Abyss Web Server (actually, it doesn't need Internet to run.) In this case,
it will host your site locally or for your home/office network. You can use
it for example to test your web site as if they were on the Internet before
uploading them on your web provider computers, or you can use to host an
Intranet. You can also use it to learn how to write scripts in PHP, Perl,
ASP or other web scripting languages.

You can use any HTML editor (there are a lot out there, seek for some of
them on download.com for example) to create your pages and put them in the
htdocs/ directory (you'll find it in the directory where you've installed
Abyss Web Server). More information about this is available in the "Getting
started" chapter in Abyss Web Server user's guide.

Making your computer accessible for the rest of the world:
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Usually, after testing your site locally, users ask about how to make their
site accessible for the rest of the Internet and how to have a domain name,
the answers are in the following guide (most of these are issues not related
to the web server itself, but rather to your network configuration):

Locally (from your computer), you can use 127.0.0.1 or localhost to access
the server. The full local URL is displayed in Abyss' main window (Local web
server URL).

To access your machine from another computer on your network (LAN), you
should use the LAN IP of the computer. Run the Windows command ipconfig in a
DOS command box to know this IP (it is usually of the form 192.168.*.* where
* are numbers ranging from 0 to 255). This LAN IP works only inside your
LAN.

To access the server from the outside, people should use your router's WAN
IP (or external IP). It is the IP assigned to it by your ISP. This WAN IP
can be known by browsing http://www.aprelium.com/ip from your computer. If
you have a router, you must configure it to forward incoming requests to the
web port to your computer so that Abyss Web Server can respond to them.

If your WAN IP changes often, You'll need to use the services of a free DNS
provider that can track those IP changes and give you a DNS name. We suggest
looking at http://www.dyndns.org or at
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/Address_Management/Dynamic_DNS_Services/?tc=1 .
This way, you'll always access your server using an address like
http://www.yourserver.freednsprovider.com without paying attention to IP
changes.

You can also buy a top level domain name (for example,
my-company.com) and use the associate your external IP with it using the
registrar services or the free http://www.zoneedit.com/ . You can find more
information about this topic in
http://www.dslwebserver.com/main/domain-name.html . You can also find many
messages and discussions on our forum http://www.aprelium.com/forum about
DNS and domain names.

If you have problems to make your server reachable from the outside, we
recommend reading http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/faq.html#A1-2 .

Notice that if you are using Windows XP, you must correctly configure its
internal Firewall: open the control panel, select the Networking section and
open the properties of your network interface. Select the Advanced Tab and
press the Parameters button (it should be in the bottom of the page). This
button will open a dialog where you can allow incoming connection to some
ports. If Abyss Web Server uses port 80, check the Web Server (HTTP) line.
If it uses another port, press Add... and enter the number of the port Abyss
uses as the internal port (select TCP and fill the other parameters
following the descriptions).


More help:
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There are many resources related to the use of the server and related
technologies:
* The user's guide of Abyss Web Server
* http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws .
* http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/faq.html .
* The discussion forum of the user community of the server:
http://www.aprelium.com/forum (contains a lot of tips and more than 30,000
messages answering vitually to any question you have about web servers and
their use, you'll find there many people available to help other users.)
* Our technical support support@aprelium.com .