A couple of weeks ago, I’ve post a series of tutorials on How To Install Your Own Web Server on Windows with Apache, PHP and MySQL. Today I’m going to sort of pick up where these tutorials left by introducing you to Apache’s Directory Aliases.
While it may not be necessary for you to read all [...]

SSI stands for Server Side Includes. You might have seen SSI as a web hosting feature on some web hosts.
Let’s see what it’s all about and what you can do with it.
Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple scripting language made mostly for the web. As its name implies, it consists of including the content [...]

This is finally the last post of this series on How To Install Your Own Web Server. In my last post I’ve shown you how to setup a virtual host and now we’re going to use this to install phpMyAdmin.
Of course, the purpose of this tutorial is not really to install phpMyAdmin but it’s rather [...]

In my last post of this series, I’ve shown you how to create a MySQL database using the GUI tools. In the fifth part of this tutorial, we’re now going to see how to add a virtual host.
What Is A Virtual Host?
A virtual host allows your web server to serve multiple websites from a unique [...]

Unfortunately I haven’t seen any good web hosting control panel for Apache on Windows (if you know some, leave a comment!). So that’s why we’re going to need something else to manage the MySQL server.
MySQL provides a set of GUI tools that allows you to perform such tasks as managing databases, managing database users, configuring [...]

In the third part of this tutorial, we’re now going to install PHP 5 on Windows.
In the two previous posts, we’ve seen how to install Apache and MySQL on a Windows computer so you you should already have a working web server and database server.

This is the second part of our tutorial on how to install your own home web server. In the first, you’ve seen how to install Apache HTTP Server on Windows. Now we’re going to see how to install MySQL, a free database server.
MySQL comes in two flavors: Enterprise Edition and the MySQL Community Server. Of [...]

Sometimes I like to have my own web server, whether it is for testing or development purposes. Since I use Windows XP or Vista on my personnal computer, my favorite setup is Windows, Apache, PHP and MySQL. This setup is also known as WAMP. And maybe you guessed it, the Linux equivalent of this setup [...]

Sometimes you need to redirect visitors to a different URL than the one they came to. This could be for various reasons: a moved file, protecting your links, setting up friendly URLs, etc.
There are many ways to achieve that, some at the server level and some at the browser level. Let’s see a few ways [...]