Turn Your Computer into a Local Web Server [How To Series]

By Rich on May 17, 2009 (57 Comments)

For the next week, I’m going to run a series of guides that will help you build and run a website on your Windows machine.

If you would like to build your own website, you can do it on your own computer without putting it online. This can be useful for a number of reasons:

You don’t have your own web hosting but you want the experience of complete access
You want to test a website before you put it online
You want to start a website that helps you organize your life, for example, but you don’t always have access to the internet

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Installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP in Windows

Installing WordPress on Your Local Windows Installation

Installing Drupal on Your Local Windows Installation

Installing LDAP Integration Module in Drupal

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Christopher

Wow! Can’t wait.
Christopher

Wow! Can’t wait.
Christopher

Wow! Can’t wait.
anthony

Sounds real good..Always wanted the know how and i’m sure it will come in handy..Thanks in advance..
anthony

Sounds real good..Always wanted the know how and i’m sure it will come in handy..Thanks in advance..
anthony

Sounds real good..Always wanted the know how and i’m sure it will come in handy..Thanks in advance..
Umair

that would be awesome!
Umair

that would be awesome!
Umair

that would be awesome!
Robert Stuczynski

Please add Installing Yoomla on Your Local Windows Installation. Especially on Windows 7 (IIS).
http://noiserobert.spaces.live.com/ Robert Stuczynski

Please add Installing Yoomla on Your Local Windows Installation. Especially on Windows 7 (IIS).
- http://www.mintywhite.com/tech/ Rich
  
  @Robert – Thanks for the suggestion — we’ll have to save that guide for sometime soon.
  
  @All – Thanks — I’m looking forward to this too :)
http://noiserobert.spaces.live.com/ Robert Stuczynski

Please add Installing Yoomla on Your Local Windows Installation. Especially on Windows 7 (IIS).
- http://www.mintywhite.com/tech/ Rich
  
  @Robert – Thanks for the suggestion — we’ll have to save that guide for sometime soon.
  
  @All – Thanks — I’m looking forward to this too :)
Angie

Sounds Great! I’ve always wanted to test scripts and HTML on my laptop before I put them on my site with WebTV. This would give me a way of doing that. Thanks!
Angie

Sounds Great! I’ve always wanted to test scripts and HTML on my laptop before I put them on my site with WebTV. This would give me a way of doing that. Thanks!
Angie

Sounds Great! I’ve always wanted to test scripts and HTML on my laptop before I put them on my site with WebTV. This would give me a way of doing that. Thanks!
Christopher

Wow! Can’t wait.
Christopher

I just installed WordPress to a new server for me (I’m still getting it running so the link on my name is my old server -still works, though) so I am looking forward to getting some tips from these guides.
Christopher

I just installed WordPress to a new server for me (I’m still getting it running so the link on my name is my old server -still works, though) so I am looking forward to getting some tips from these guides.
Rich

@Robert – Thanks for the suggestion — we’ll have to save that guide for sometime soon.

@All – Thanks — I’m looking forward to this too :)
Felipe

very nice..

another good topic, just for sugeat, is how to make webservers (apache http) more security. I think that is a problem when noob people configure an web server and dont care about it.

thks..
Felipe

very nice..

another good topic, just for sugeat, is how to make webservers (apache http) more security. I think that is a problem when noob people configure an web server and dont care about it.

thks..
- http://www.mintywhite.com/tech/ Rich
  
  Thanks for the suggestion Felipe. Do you know much about Apache security? (I don’t know much, but I’d love to learn.)
Felipe

very nice..

another good topic, just for sugeat, is how to make webservers (apache http) more security. I think that is a problem when noob people configure an web server and dont care about it.

thks..
- http://www.mintywhite.com/tech/ Rich
  
  Thanks for the suggestion Felipe. Do you know much about Apache security? (I don’t know much, but I’d love to learn.)
Rich

Thanks for the suggestion Felipe. Do you know much about Apache security? (I don’t know much, but I’d love to learn.)
Christopher

I just installed WordPress to a new server for me (I’m still getting it running so the link on my name is my old server -still works, though) so I am looking forward to getting some tips from these guides.
Christopher

I just installed WordPress to a new server for me (I’m still getting it running so the link on my name is my old server -still works, though) so I am looking forward to getting some tips from these guides.
Installing Apache, MySQL, and

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MSherwood

Hey this is an awesome week! I’m excited for this as I’m just getting into web design (and I just finished my class in HTML and JavaScript). Thanks Rich!
http://mywindowspc.com/msherwood/ MSherwood

Hey this is an awesome week! I’m excited for this as I’m just getting into web design (and I just finished my class in HTML and JavaScript). Thanks Rich!
http://mywindowspc.com/msherwood/ MSherwood

Hey this is an awesome week! I’m excited for this as I’m just getting into web design (and I just finished my class in HTML and JavaScript). Thanks Rich!
jcterry

I haven’t done anything with websites before. I am self-taught in VBA and I can find my way around in ASP. Is that enough knowledge to be able to use this?
jcterry

I haven’t done anything with websites before. I am self-taught in VBA and I can find my way around in ASP. Is that enough knowledge to be able to use this?
- http://www.mintywhite.com/tech/ Rich
  
  Yes, with the coming guides, you’ll never touch code until you make the decision to. We’ll cover WordPress and Drupal–both are written in PHP.
jcterry

I haven’t done anything with websites before. I am self-taught in VBA and I can find my way around in ASP. Is that enough knowledge to be able to use this?
- http://www.mintywhite.com/tech/ Rich
  
  Yes, with the coming guides, you’ll never touch code until you make the decision to. We’ll cover WordPress and Drupal–both are written in PHP.
Rich

Yes, with the coming guides, you’ll never touch code until you make the decision to. We’ll cover WordPress and Drupal–both are written in PHP.
Installing Wordpress on Your L

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Johm101

WOW First let me say a big thank you for this, it well be a great project for me to try out, as they say you are never to old to learn, lets see what 73 years can learn.
Johm101

WOW First let me say a big thank you for this, it well be a great project for me to try out, as they say you are never to old to learn, lets see what 73 years can learn.
Johm101

WOW First let me say a big thank you for this, it well be a great project for me to try out, as they say you are never to old to learn, lets see what 73 years can learn.
Installing Drupal on Your Loca

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Francisco Wesley

Rich, if possible post how to install PhpNuke too.
http://www.franciscowesley.com/ Francisco Wesley

Rich, if possible post how to install PhpNuke too.
- http://www.mintywhite.com/tech/ Rich
  
  Francisco. Once you have WAMP set up, please follow these instructions (I’ve not tested them myself)
http://www.franciscowesley.com Francisco Wesley

Rich, if possible post how to install PhpNuke too.
- http://www.mintywhite.com/tech/ Rich
  
  Francisco. Once you have WAMP set up, please follow these instructions (I’ve not tested them myself)
Installing LDAP Integration Mo

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Rich

Francisco. Once you have WAMP set up, please follow these instructions (I’ve not tested them myself)
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Dark Soul

wow.. this is really add to my tech knowledge :) thanks for great post
Dark Soul

wow.. this is really add to my tech knowledge :) thanks for great post
Dark Soul

wow.. this is really add to my tech knowledge :) thanks for great post
Emil

these guides are awesome

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