Website/Forum on my PC for my LAN

[ZuljinRaynor]

How do I make a website and Forum that will be hosted on my computer and only be available for use by people on my LAN?

Any tutorials cause I'm searching wrong or Google's just not helping me.

If the only thing I do is make a website and host the files, how do I add phpbb and php to it?

[Jokke_r]

why a forum on a lan? the most convenient and popular way to do stuff like this is to just have your own irc channel, and server too if there's no internet connection at the event.

[ZuljinRaynor]

Nope, it has to be forum, has to.

[zilppuri]

I suggest you install xampp (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html)
It´s pre-configures pack with all the stuff you need for web server (PHP and mysql for the forum). Install that and then install phpBB (or if I may recommend: PunBB) as you would to any web server.

Mainly in normal situation (where you have the firewall protecting your lan) the server shouldn´t be reachable from outside. You can always protect it with password though, if you dont have hardware firewall.

I can't really help you any more, but XAMPP is the thing you want.

Jokke_r: He wasnt talking about "an event". So IRC probably isnt the best solution here.

[ZuljinRaynor]

Alright, I'll give this a shot.

[Lain]

or try Apache Tomcat you just need to install and run the software in a directory under it.

[Xerxes]

ZuljinRaynor said:
How do I make a website and Forum that will be hosted on my computer and only be available for use by people on my LAN?



Download PHPDev and reconfigure Apache(edit the big .conf).

Then write a forum(you could also have an IRC channel with Unreal).