i need help (trippinbill)

[Appfro]

ok, i can't find anyone to help me and i need some real help. im tired of angelsuck and my school website only allows us 7 MB of space which barely enough for a homepage and a song. so i heard somewher that w/ a program called apache you can set up a homepage right on your computer and set up the router then give people the ip address and they can look at your stuff. then you go to this no-ip.whatever and set up a page that they actually look for instead of giving out your ip. this is awesome, but im computer illiterate. so im wondering if anyone could hook me up w/ step by step instructions. thanks in advanced.

[NPR]

If you are running Windows then you can just install PWS Personal Web Server and then it is like running a site from your computer. You should be able to grab PWS(IIS) of of the Windows install disk. I am running Windows 2000 and I am doing this right now. Then once you have PWS installed you just start it then give people your IP. I am not to sure about running it through you router. You would probably just have to give them your router IP address and then they might have to put in a password to access your pages on your computer. I will have to look into that part.

A friend of mine wrote this to me maybe it will help you out as well. It is not to difficult to do. Let me know if you need further help.

1 - If using Windows 2000 Pro or Server configure IIS WWW server, drop in
your html files and verify that you can browse to you own "website" from
inside your home network. For example, create a virtual directory called
HotLaura and drop in an HTML page called WOW.html you would browse via your
home PC IP adderess to that html page:
http:\\999.999.9.999\HotLaura\WOW.html
If the page comes up then your webserver to working. Don't forget to reset
IIS (stop and start the service)

2 - Configure your home router so that the http port (I think it's port 60
but I'm not sure) to redirected to your home PC IP address. Your router
should have port forwarding settings for HTTP, FTP, Telnet, etc. . . This
will forward any packets to that port to your home pc.

3 - Either from inside or outside of your router use your EXTERNAL Ip
address. (look at the router again, it should have it).
http:\\99.9.9.999\HotLaura\WOW.html

[jseymour_va]

2 - Configure your home router so that the http port (I think it's port 60
but I'm not sure) to redirected to your home PC IP address. Your router
should have port forwarding settings for HTTP, FTP, Telnet, etc. . . This
will forward any packets to that port to your home pc.

HTTP is port 80.
FTP = 21
Should be all the ports you need.