web server for windows xp home.

[bob5731]

I need web server for windows xp home.

[slicknet12]

IIS 6.0 , comes with windows xp pro i know, not sure about home, also apache.

[kleinma]

IIS is NOT included with XP home... I don't even know if you could install it if you got a PRO CD, possibly... but that is something you would have to test (or get someone to test for you). All I know is it is not part of the XP home install or located on the CD.

like slicknet12 said, you can get a free webserver to run, an apache one, or there are a few others... but it all depends on what you are looking to do. If you need ASP/ASP.NET then IIS is the only way to go... there are a few add ons to non IIS servers that allow ASP processing.. but I have yet to see a complete one that has the full power of IIS for ASP processing... also ASP.NET is only going to work on IIS

[bob5731]

free web server and easy to setup.

[dglienna]

not likely

[visualAd]

Apache is a free open source web server and is easy to set up.

http://httpd.apache.org/

[dglienna]

where were you guys tonight? we got one running.

http://www.summitcn.com/lilhttp/lildocs.html

[scruffybear]

Hi,
like the look of lil http.
If i set it up for my remote users how do they access it, can it have its own domain or ip.
Sorry to sound dumb but this is new to me

[dglienna]

he uses NO-IP.COM with a dynamic IP. It works well. They give you a domain to use, and route to you. Pretty goof-proof operation. Limited accounts, but worth every penny.

[scruffybear]

Hi,
thanks.
Went and had a look at no-ip.com is the free one they offer the one i would need or the paid one?

What i am trying to do is have a server that only our remote users can access, the software they use replaces the windows shell and i want it to send stats to our servers where i can set up monitoring software and hopefully initiate some sort of update system for the software.

[dglienna]

Nope, he says that it is free. I only helped set it up, and tested it (from another state) Now he's looking for email, and chat software.

Do you know if it can support two distinct web sites from the same address?

[David.Poundall]

The free one should be ok for you. The paid one give you more choice on the domain names.

[scruffybear]

Hi,
i would think that if you created the web sites under different folders you could access them both, but not sure.

My problem is that i need to have a lot of users (100+) sending data back to individual accounts, not sure if this is possible.

[dglienna]

I'll try to read up on it.

[scruffybear]

Hi,
set up lil http and then went and signed up to no-ip.com but at present i cannot get the two to connect, i get a dns error.
lil http reports an ip address of 192.168.0.1 and no-ip reports an address of 81.134.128.129

Any ideas?

[dglienna]

what url did they give you? you can pm me if you want. i'll try it.

it may take a while, also. he had his for a while.

[scruffybear]

Hi,
the address they gave me was e-box.no-ip.info
i think that lil http is using the internal network address not the internet address as i have both on this machine.

[dglienna]

he is behind a router, but I'm not sure if he gave the adress from no-ip or not. you might want to try using that one.

[scruffybear]

Hi,
tried that, but it won't let me use it.
i now have it set to 127.0.0.1 but still not resolving they might not have it updated yet i suppose.

[dglienna]

I'll try it later on today or tonight.

[David.Poundall]

No-IP is reporting back the routers address and that is the one that they need to bounce your users to.

Your router needs to be set to open a port to your chosen Web server. Typically you will be looking for something like the attached screen shot.

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[David.Poundall]

Hi,
tried that, but it won't let me use it.
i now have it set to 127.0.0.1 but still not resolving they might not have it updated yet i suppose.

127.0.0.1 is local loopback. This will allow YOUR pc to access itself.

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[dglienna]

you give NO-IP your IP address, and then they give you an IP address, which I think that you have to use for the report-back feature. that lets your machine report back and gives them your new IP address that they forward to. it also might be their way of controlling access, but I'm not sure.

It's not up yet.

[scruffybear]

Hi,
the problem is that i do not have a router, i connect straight through an adsl modem, but the machine also has a network card for the local xp network, the other users connect to the internet through my machine.
When i use the tool from no-ip it reports an ip of 81.134.161.36 in lil http it shows the network address of 192.168.0.1 so not sure how to proceed.

[scruffybear]

Yipppeeeee
it now works, yesterday when i tried to manually set the ip in lil http it would not accept the one i gave it, today it has just worked and i can now connect to the server with no trouble.
Just to double check can one of you try this url and report back please:
http://www.e-box.no-ip.info/scruffybear

And a big thanks to everyone for all of their help

Now all i have to do is write a system in my existing software to send the status of the user to the server and a front end on the server to check it

[David.Poundall]

Looking Good Huston

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[scruffybear]

Hi,
great, now for the hard bit
Any suggestions how to attack this, do i use winsock and ftp the files up to the site from the remote computer or does anyone have any better ideas.
What i would like to achieve are:
usage stats and the state of the machine at the moment i.e. in use

Any suggestions are welcome.

[BodwadUK]

FTP is the best way to send files to your site. For security reasons dont use port 21 as its the most common port and is therefore attacked regularly by bots and viruses.

There are loads of ftp tutorials out there

[dglienna]

i'll get the name of one that seems to be working sometime before tomorrow. i'm not sure what the limitations are.

[bob5731]

I use http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ ftp
It is free.

[bob5731]

The next tab to discuss is the "Security" tab. The security used by this server is very light. It uses the RFC 2617 (HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication) Basic method. Virtually every web browser made supports this method. The basic method doesn't use any kind of encryption so it isn't something that you would want to use to guard very sensitive data. The security is provided to keep most people out of certain areas of your web server. Since the passwords aren't encrypted it is highly recommended to use a password that is unique to this server. Don't use one that you use everywhere else because a productive hacker could obtain the password if he's around when you type it in. Now the would-be hacker of course would have to be in your data path between you and the server, but it is best to play it safe.