Category: Web Servers Scrippting and Databases
Posted by: spyhwearslayer
Ok so why would you want to do this and what will you need to do so?
To answer the question you will need a web server if you want to test any web pages that you write on a local computer.
There are various Web Servers available, but Apache is well recognised, works well, is very popular, and is Free... are you convinced!!
In order to have a web server ofcourse you need a computer to run it on and of course internet access. Preferably broadband, and a little time of course to download the software and install it.
There are a number of versions of Apache and we are at the moment downloading Version 2.2.10 (win32), and am installing it on a machine running Windows Vista Home Premium. You can install it on a computer running Windows XP if you like, we have done this sucessfully....
One problem you may encounter is that you may point your browser to the place where the apache server is and it may not display your web pages, this can be very frustrating and can be caused by several possible reasons, plus can be tricky to fix. We will say more about this below.
Another problem you may encounter is simply down loading the apache Web server sofware, we tried downloading apache web server using Firefox version 3 and discovered that is could not find the mirror to download from. We solved this buy using Internet Explorer version 7, but I think version 6 will work also ok...
An Apache Web Server will effectively serve a page up to a browser, and it is no diffrent when you point a browser at your own machine. However there are a bunch of things, that can easily go wrong, and it is difficult to sort this out...
Here are a few clues..... firstly an apache server will be listening to a particular port. generally Apache listens to port 80. It is possible to configure apache to listen to port 8080 instead, and if you put into the browser the address of the local machine but do not spify the port as well as the url, you may find it doesn't work.
Notice that a server, a web server in this case, running on a local computer will be found at 127.0.0.1, but you may need to specify the port as well as the ip address, you do this by typing http://127.0.0.1:80 notice the colon is separating the ip address from the port.
To answer the question you will need a web server if you want to test any web pages that you write on a local computer.
There are various Web Servers available, but Apache is well recognised, works well, is very popular, and is Free... are you convinced!!
In order to have a web server ofcourse you need a computer to run it on and of course internet access. Preferably broadband, and a little time of course to download the software and install it.
There are a number of versions of Apache and we are at the moment downloading Version 2.2.10 (win32), and am installing it on a machine running Windows Vista Home Premium. You can install it on a computer running Windows XP if you like, we have done this sucessfully....
One problem you may encounter is that you may point your browser to the place where the apache server is and it may not display your web pages, this can be very frustrating and can be caused by several possible reasons, plus can be tricky to fix. We will say more about this below.
Another problem you may encounter is simply down loading the apache Web server sofware, we tried downloading apache web server using Firefox version 3 and discovered that is could not find the mirror to download from. We solved this buy using Internet Explorer version 7, but I think version 6 will work also ok...
An Apache Web Server will effectively serve a page up to a browser, and it is no diffrent when you point a browser at your own machine. However there are a bunch of things, that can easily go wrong, and it is difficult to sort this out...
Here are a few clues..... firstly an apache server will be listening to a particular port. generally Apache listens to port 80. It is possible to configure apache to listen to port 8080 instead, and if you put into the browser the address of the local machine but do not spify the port as well as the url, you may find it doesn't work.
Notice that a server, a web server in this case, running on a local computer will be found at 127.0.0.1, but you may need to specify the port as well as the ip address, you do this by typing http://127.0.0.1:80 notice the colon is separating the ip address from the port.
We do not say to you "please step away from you vehicle, place you hands on the hood and spread emm."
No instead we say ... what wrong with your computer do you want us to fix it for you!??
Here in this blog are some links to pages at chephrenrepairs.com
so we start of with the home page at www.chephrenrepairs.com
here is a page about us the Computer Technician in Reading Berkshire
Maybe you fancy a short course in Search engine optimization or is it optimisation, in fact a one day course, that is hard hitting intense and will get you going on the right track, in fact we recently got googled for Computer Repairs in Reading on an i phone, yep thats the ticket!! so here is the link Search Engine Optimisation Course in Reading Berkshire.
Have you got your Knickers in a Twist!!?, its a serious question and of course it refers to "the Twisted Knicker pages" at chephrenrepairs.com, these pages are all about getting your knickers in a twist with CSS, Cascading Style sheets to you and me... here is the link to the Twisted Knicker Pages- (CSS)
No instead we say ... what wrong with your computer do you want us to fix it for you!??
Here in this blog are some links to pages at chephrenrepairs.com
so we start of with the home page at www.chephrenrepairs.com
here is a page about us the Computer Technician in Reading Berkshire
Maybe you fancy a short course in Search engine optimization or is it optimisation, in fact a one day course, that is hard hitting intense and will get you going on the right track, in fact we recently got googled for Computer Repairs in Reading on an i phone, yep thats the ticket!! so here is the link Search Engine Optimisation Course in Reading Berkshire.
Have you got your Knickers in a Twist!!?, its a serious question and of course it refers to "the Twisted Knicker pages" at chephrenrepairs.com, these pages are all about getting your knickers in a twist with CSS, Cascading Style sheets to you and me... here is the link to the Twisted Knicker Pages- (CSS)
Oh.. right,, ,there are a load of things you can do, so we leave aside all the normal stuff like installing and using anti virus and firewall software and instead talk about you the user of the computer....
First rule, make sure you do no download any thing at all!! and at the same time set up Firefox so the it will not allow and scripts to run at all, this is easy to do and may break some web sites, but then the point is to protect you pc from getting spy wear in the first place isn't it.
You should realize that downloading any thing is a risk, you should also realize that down loading anything that is an executable file is an even greater risk!
at the same time you must view any thing that you see in the browser window that says that you computer is infected with spy wear or a virus or malware or any dangerous software as being either hoax or more likely spywear trying to get on to you computer.
You should not click on any thing in a browser that says it can solve spywear or virus infections, as these links in them selves are probably or virtually definitely dangerous, in almost every case!!.
Instead disconnect from the the internet by unplugging you router and do not go to that web site again.
No genuine anti virus or anti spy wear program would put such warning into a web page full stop, period!!....
First rule, make sure you do no download any thing at all!! and at the same time set up Firefox so the it will not allow and scripts to run at all, this is easy to do and may break some web sites, but then the point is to protect you pc from getting spy wear in the first place isn't it.
You should realize that downloading any thing is a risk, you should also realize that down loading anything that is an executable file is an even greater risk!
at the same time you must view any thing that you see in the browser window that says that you computer is infected with spy wear or a virus or malware or any dangerous software as being either hoax or more likely spywear trying to get on to you computer.
You should not click on any thing in a browser that says it can solve spywear or virus infections, as these links in them selves are probably or virtually definitely dangerous, in almost every case!!.
Instead disconnect from the the internet by unplugging you router and do not go to that web site again.
No genuine anti virus or anti spy wear program would put such warning into a web page full stop, period!!....
Are you following this.... well you should, why cause you need to know how get red of spywear..
we managed to delete the partition on the drive and then we started to format the raw drive
we managed to delete the partition on the drive and then we started to format the raw drive
Well this is a brilliant question, because when you are fighting viruses you need to know where they might hide and how to stop them dead!!
Of course one thing people say is that viruses and spywear can not hide in the bios of the computer. We are not so sure.... we have a laptop that had had a whole lot of viruses and spywear on it and we are trying to get this machine to work correctly...
We are going to format the hard drive and then do a restore using the restore cd, then we are going to use another cd to instal all the correct drivers for the lap top , will this erradicate the viruses ansd spywear, or is this just another red herring....??
Of course one thing people say is that viruses and spywear can not hide in the bios of the computer. We are not so sure.... we have a laptop that had had a whole lot of viruses and spywear on it and we are trying to get this machine to work correctly...
We are going to format the hard drive and then do a restore using the restore cd, then we are going to use another cd to instal all the correct drivers for the lap top , will this erradicate the viruses ansd spywear, or is this just another red herring....??
Look here is some basic information about RAID, we start of by saying that in order to create a RAID, you either need a motherboard that has a RAID Controller on it, or you need a motherboard that has a RAID card attached to it..
So why create one, that is a RAID, well the main reason is to get some extra data security in the event of hardware failure. in other words it is an attempt to build a computer system than can easily be rebuilt if one or more than one hard disk drive fails, but look not all RIADs are the same and some can only survive one hard drive actually breaking and some can survive more than one disk breaking down.
You need to be able to know how many disks are needed for a given RAID Type, you need to generally set up the RAID During the installation of the operating system... what do we mean by this..well...
when you install an operating system, you will see a prompt that asks you do you want to install RAID drivers.... look RAID needs a hardware controller as well as software drivers in order to be set up. The drivers need to be the correct ones for the hardware controller you actually have.
So does the operating system know that all the files making it work are spread out over motre than one disk....??? No, in fact the operating system sees the RAID Array as one single disk, this from a computer repairs perspective creates a problem..... oh yes siree...
So why create one, that is a RAID, well the main reason is to get some extra data security in the event of hardware failure. in other words it is an attempt to build a computer system than can easily be rebuilt if one or more than one hard disk drive fails, but look not all RIADs are the same and some can only survive one hard drive actually breaking and some can survive more than one disk breaking down.
You need to be able to know how many disks are needed for a given RAID Type, you need to generally set up the RAID During the installation of the operating system... what do we mean by this..well...
when you install an operating system, you will see a prompt that asks you do you want to install RAID drivers.... look RAID needs a hardware controller as well as software drivers in order to be set up. The drivers need to be the correct ones for the hardware controller you actually have.
So does the operating system know that all the files making it work are spread out over motre than one disk....??? No, in fact the operating system sees the RAID Array as one single disk, this from a computer repairs perspective creates a problem..... oh yes siree...
Get this right, you will need to have some kind of network card, of course, but you need a whole lot more than that.. you need a network card driver and the right one and you need to right phrases to connect to the network with either WEP or WAP security on it. Look WEP Security may be 128 bits or 64 bit and it may be entered as hexadecimal or as ascii characters, you need to know both these bits of info before entering the pass phrase needed to connect.....of coarse its nice to know the name of the network, but that with out the wep or wap pass phrasese will be useless...1!!!!!
Oh yes and just to make things a little more difficult you need to figure out whether both the network card and the router can handle the same type of WAP Security, because a miss match could mean failure, or it could mean that it works at a lesser security setting..., but at least still works.....
You can guess accurately whether it is 64 bit or 128 bit according to how long the pass phrase is, but of couse you can only do this if the newtork owner has given you this information
Oh yes and just to make things a little more difficult you need to figure out whether both the network card and the router can handle the same type of WAP Security, because a miss match could mean failure, or it could mean that it works at a lesser security setting..., but at least still works.....
You can guess accurately whether it is 64 bit or 128 bit according to how long the pass phrase is, but of couse you can only do this if the newtork owner has given you this information
That company that Repairs Computers in Reading launches in the face of all the competition, like a pointed tip of a Samurai Sword quivering about to pounce and slice you to threads, a pre purchase PC Service for a reasonable fee, plus a software company that writes web sites that just work and can be found by you and me... oh gosh thats nice The Hope and Poke Software company starts work on a we site for a music Venue in Earley Reading... oh ok ,, and look out for a service thats gives you usefully and relevant advice if you are going to buy any type of computer.. this service is simple, you tell us why you want a computer to do what, we get you to pay us some money we give you a report telling you what to buy, what not to buy and why, and a few gottchyas as well.... really simple.
Hope and poke software concentrates on dynamic websites that are written using a mix of PHP. Ajax, CSS HTMl, XML, Java Script and any open source software that works!!! ok so no .asp and web technologies written by Microsoft..... noop sorry just open source software, and believe me there is plenty of open source software out there!!!!!
Hope and poke software concentrates on dynamic websites that are written using a mix of PHP. Ajax, CSS HTMl, XML, Java Script and any open source software that works!!! ok so no .asp and web technologies written by Microsoft..... noop sorry just open source software, and believe me there is plenty of open source software out there!!!!!
Ok so all pc repair firms in reading berkshire UK make mistake of course they do #11????
But in this blog we tell you about some basic hardware decisions because we at chephrenrepairs.com could tell you a thing or two about computer hardware. We do know a little about the pc repairs business.... it is what we do for Christ sakes....
ok so there is a lot to do.. you need of course a motherboard and it would be nice to have a processor and some memory wouldn't it!!!!
So we go to London and spend some money, and talk to a girl hanging on a wall in dodggy night club, who says she wants to take us home and give a dog a bone!!!
so we choose an msi motherboard with an AMD 790 x chipset infact a K9A2 Platinum series board, well why this one you ask...... well cause its not that expensive and it can handle some very
fast AMD processors and it has a fast front side bus,oh ok a fast front side bus is worth having, yep.
But in this blog we tell you about some basic hardware decisions because we at chephrenrepairs.com could tell you a thing or two about computer hardware. We do know a little about the pc repairs business.... it is what we do for Christ sakes....
ok so there is a lot to do.. you need of course a motherboard and it would be nice to have a processor and some memory wouldn't it!!!!
So we go to London and spend some money, and talk to a girl hanging on a wall in dodggy night club, who says she wants to take us home and give a dog a bone!!!
so we choose an msi motherboard with an AMD 790 x chipset infact a K9A2 Platinum series board, well why this one you ask...... well cause its not that expensive and it can handle some very
fast AMD processors and it has a fast front side bus,oh ok a fast front side bus is worth having, yep.
06/09: Reading Computer Repairs Firm adds forms so you can tell them what is broken on your computer
In order to improve computer repair. maintenance, mending and configuration services offered by Chephrenrepairs.com in Earley in between Reading and Bracknell, to all its previous existing and new customers we are adding some field to our databases to simply record the date, So here are the links to tell us whats wrong with your computer: click tell us or go to Tell us What Wrong with your Computer
At the same time we are changing some of the links in this blog, so look for the section on this page that says Links.... you will find it on the right hand side of the blog beneath Login: you will find login underneath Search:
Are you a fan of the Computer Fixer blog and you have not been noticed or have not had your say: !! feel like you've been left in the wings, also comming very soon a particular place to say what you want from the Computer Fixer blog and from chephrenrepairs.com
At the same time we are changing some of the links in this blog, so look for the section on this page that says Links.... you will find it on the right hand side of the blog beneath Login: you will find login underneath Search:
Are you a fan of the Computer Fixer blog and you have not been noticed or have not had your say: !! feel like you've been left in the wings, also comming very soon a particular place to say what you want from the Computer Fixer blog and from chephrenrepairs.com
