Small, fr33, easy 2 use webserver 4 n00bs?

[Guden Oden]

I was thinking of setting up a simple website on my pooter using dyndns.org's services or some such. What would be a good software package to use?

Also, any recommendations for a program that makes it easy to build simple webpages? I'm not out to create a competitor to MSN or such, I just want to experiment a little...

 

[Tim Murray]

why, Apache, of course!

it's still pretty simple, and you can use fun things like php and all of that.

 

[carpediem]

Do you want to be able to use php and mysql, or are you planning to only use static pages?

Dreamweaver MX 2004 is the best program to edit html/php in in my oppinion. There a free 30 day trials to download on macromedias homepage, if you're interested to test it.

 

[carpediem]

If you want to do dynamic pages there are many nice packages that installs apache/mysql/php in one go.

here's one.
http://www.easyphp.org/

and a selection of different ones:
http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Software_and_Servers/Installation_Kits/

 

[Guden Oden]

I'm a n00b, I know nothing about html, I couldn't design a "hello world" webpage if my life depended on it. PHP? All I can say to that is "", hehe.

I guess it's static pages for me, Dreamweaver is probably way above my head, like buying msword when notepad would do. Doesn't anyone know of any free tools that can do this?

Thanks for the replies so far btw.

 

[carpediem]

When I share a file, I use a very small http server that is just 1 exe and 1 ini file. You can use it as a file server for sharing, or use it as a normal webserver. It's completly free and open source, made by an italian.

Get the latest beta of the upcoming 2.0 release here: http://www.rejetto.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1480

 

[Saem]

Use apache for the webserver, it's fairly easy and the documentation owns. If you have an old machine lying around, freebsd + apache is your friend.

As for an HTML editor, download the mozilla suite. You can use their default composer or check out the nview/nvu I can't remember the name, plugin. Basically, makes it a more powerful HTML editor. Have fun.