Host website at your home

Are you planning to make a website for your home purpose? Do you have a thought of
making your own website wherein there is no such monthly bill to be paid for it? If you are
making such plans then you are in the correct path. Follow the instructions given below
for hosting a website. Here it is advised you to configure the old computer into a free web
hosting server.

The first aspect is to check in your computer weather it contains any stuff because people
will erase the data completely which is in the computer. If you are ready for the task then
download centos. After downloading burn the image into your DVD if your computer does
not contain DVD burner then download it cd versions.

Then insert the DVD or else the cd whichever you had downloaded and then bios to boot the
system. Then install the centos. If you require any help then go for the information which is
provided in this installation dedicated server review.

It is very good to install the updates if you are booted into the centos for the first time.
As you will find a pop up on the right corner and with the help of that option one can get
updates. Then install the centos which are required for the web server. The availabilities of
the basic LAMP server are Linux+ Apache+ MYSQL + PHP/ Perl.

First they will install apache, then MYSQL and then PHP and then your server will be asked
to restart then press enter.

Now in order to test whether your computer is set up with web hosting server is to open the
Firefox and then type 127.0.0.1 then there will page which is available centos test page. If it
is not visible then goes back to the apache installation and sees that everything is installed
correctly or not. Configure the fire walls.