<div class="IPBDescription">for movies and such</div> Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone know how to open a file server from my pc so a few friends can download some fraps movies and could tell me in detail how to do this. Thanks in advanced.
<a href='http://www.wampserver.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.wampserver.com/</a> is a 1 in all install for windows, it has Apache, PHP5 and MySQL. It's easy enough to set up.
Yea, then you can go to no-ip.com and get a you.no-ip.com address that you can give your friends and they can download like any site.
That's just a conviniance. You can give them your IP address instead. Personally, I've never used no-ip, but I know people who have. The WAMP server however, I have used.
Ahh ok. Well, I set it up, but how do I get to the place where I add files and such? It gave me the ip of "24.59.183.44", i'm kinda clueless as of waht to do next.
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Okay, one you have that WAMP thingy setup, you need to look for a folder called htdocs. This is the root of your webserver. Any one who goes to http://<your ip here>, Apache (your webserver) will start from the htdocs folder. If you create a subfolder in htdocs, you can send your friends over to http://<ip>/foldername and they'll basically see the contents of that folder.
Oh, and I do recommend getting a no-ip adress. Makes accessing your server over the internet less of a pain since you won't have to remember your IP to get to it. And besides, you'll probably get a different IP adress every time you reboot. Getting a no-ip account is easy and the little program is quite painless. I just don't remember how to set up apache to use addresses.
I use a simple little <a href='http://www.mycgiserver.com/~ranab/ftp/' target='_blank'>Java FTP Server</a> for this. If you have a router you'll need to open the right ports though.
Well, skulk bait, can you give me a link to the download I need?
as for the apache thing and no-ip.com thing, I have it installed and I have a no-ip.com account, I don't reallyknow what I do next. I searched for that folder...but when I do search nothing comes up, any ideas?
Its on that page... anyway <a href='http://www.mycgiserver.com/~ranab/download/ftp-server.jar' target='_blank'>here</a> it is. You will need Java installed for this to work.
An alternative is to use OpenSSH for Windows (<a href='http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/' target='_blank'>http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/</a>) and use WinSCP to download files (<a href='http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/' target='_blank'>http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/</a>) if you're worried about packet sniffing and want encryption (which you probably aren't). It'll also run slower, not only because of the encryption, but because it's a CygWin port. But I include it here, just to make the list more complete.
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<a href='http://www.wampserver.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.wampserver.com/</a> is a 1 in all install for windows, it has Apache, PHP5 and MySQL. It's easy enough to set up.
Yea, then you can go to no-ip.com and get a you.no-ip.com address that you can give your friends and they can download like any site.
One of us started a hub and the others joined.
I have no idea what to put under this option?
» Mail Options
Enter the name of your external mail exchangers (mx records), as hostnames not IP addresses.
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Anyway, back on topic.
Oh, and I do recommend getting a no-ip adress. Makes accessing your server over the internet less of a pain since you won't have to remember your IP to get to it. And besides, you'll probably get a different IP adress every time you reboot. Getting a no-ip account is easy and the little program is quite painless. I just don't remember how to set up apache to use addresses.
as for the apache thing and no-ip.com thing, I have it installed and I have a no-ip.com account, I don't reallyknow what I do next. I searched for that folder...but when I do search nothing comes up, any ideas?