Personal server (total guide)

As you learned earlier in the HTML PAGE , you can display within your Web browser the Web pages you
create and save to a local or network drive—without first connecting to the Internet or a Web server.
Simply enter the pathname of the .html (Web page) file as File://<.html file pathname> into the Web
browser’s Address field. Thus, if you save a Web page name TestPage.htm in the MyWebs folder at
the root (that is, top) folder on your C drive, you can display the page in your Web browser by entering
File://C:/MyWebs/TestPage.htm.
To make your Web pages available to others across the Internet, you must have a Web server.
Further, as you will learn in Chapters 10, 11, and 12, a Web server is also required if you want to
execute server-side scripts (programs that the server runs on the behalf of your Web page). If you are
using one of the Windows operating systems (Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, or XP) you can install the
Personal Web Server (PWS) on your personal PC or network workstation free of charge. After you
install the PWS and establish an Internet connection, other users on the Web can view the Web pages
you publish on your system. In addition, you can use the PWS to test Web pages that submit form
results and pages with server-side scripts, such as those embedded in PHP and Active Server Pages
(which you will learn about in Chapters 10 and 11, respectively).
If you have a Windows 98 CD, insert the CD in your CD-ROM drive and skip the
download-procedure discussion that follows; you will find the PWS in the \Add-Ons\
PWS\ folder on the Windows 98 CD. Otherwise, you must install the PWS from the Windows NT 4
Option Pack, which you can download from the Microsoft’s Web site on the Internet by performing
the following steps:
1. If you do not have a permanent (that is, always-on) connection to the Internet, use your modem
to establish a dial-up connection through your ISP.
2. Start your Web browser, and type the following URL into the browser’s Address field:
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/ntoptionpack/askwiz.asp and press ENTER.
3. Within the Windows NT Option Pack Web page, click the Option 1 hyperlink. Your browser,
in turn, will display the Download Step 2 Web page, which lets you select the operating system
for which you want to download the NT 4 Option Pack download program.
4. Within the Download Step 2 page, use the drop-down menu on the Web page to select your
operating system. Unless you are installing the PWS on an NT Workstation or NT Server,
select the Windows 95 option. For NT Workstation, select the NT Workstation option and
for NT Server install the Internet Information Server (IIS) instead of the PWS. Then, click
Next. Your Web browser, in turn, will display the Download Step 3 Web page.

5. Within the Download Step 3 page, click the download.exe link near the bottom right-hand
corner of the Web page. Windows, in turn, will display the File Download dialog box.
6. Within the File Download dialog box, click the Save This Program To Disk radio button and
then click OK. Windows, in turn, will display the Save As dialog box.
7. Within the Save As dialog box, use the drop-down list button to the right of the Save In field
to select the folder in which you want to save the download.exe program file. For example,
you might use the drop-down list button to navigate to the C:\My Download Files folder.
Then, click Save.
8. Within Windows, use the Explorer to navigate to the folder in which you saved download.exe.
Run the application. Download.exe, in turn, will display the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack
license agreement.
9. Read the terms of the agreement. Then, click Yes to continue with the installation. The download
program, in turn, will display a Download Options dialog box.
10. Within the Download Options dialog box, click the Download Only radio button and then click
Next button. The download program, in turn, will display the Language and CPU/Operating
System Options screen.
11. Within the Language and CPU/Operating System screen, select the Language and CPU/
Operating System, and then click Next. The download program, in turn, will display the
Installation Options screen.
12. Within the Installation Options screen, click the Full Installation radio button and then click
Next. The download program, in turn, will display the Save In Folder screen.
13. Within the Save In Folder screen, enter the folder in which you want the download program
to store the NT 4 Option pack’s files. (For example, you might enter C:\PWSSetupFiles into
the Save In Folder field.) Then, click Next. The download program, in turn, will display the
Download Location dialog box with a list of sites from which you can download the NT 4
Option Pack.
14. Within the Download Location dialog box, select the download site nearest your geographical
location (if more than one site is on the list). Then, click Next. The download program will
present you with the download site’s Security Certificate. Click Yes to accept the certificate
and complete the NT 4 Option Pack download.
After you complete Step 14, the download program will retrieve the NT 4 Option Pack from the
location you selected and store the NT 4 Option Pack files within the folder you entered in Step 13.
Before you can start the PWS, you must install the application on your computer. Whether you
downloaded the NT 4 Option Pack or are using your Windows 98 CD, perform the following steps
to complete the PWS installation:
1. Execute setup.exe either within the Windows 98 CD-ROM (x:\Add-Ons\PWS\Setup.exe,
where x is the letter of your CD-ROM drive) or within the folder you entered in Step 13 of
the preceding download procedure.2. On the setup program’s initial installation screen, click Next. Setup.exe, in turn, will display the
PWS End User License Agreement. Read the agreement and then click Accept to continue with
the installation. The setup program, in turn, will display either the Installation Options dialog box
or the Select Components Dialog box. (Which dialog box the program displays is not important
and depends on whether you are upgrading an older version [or reinstalling the current version]
of PWS or if you are installing the Web server for the first time.)
3. Within the Installation Options or the Select Components dialog box, click Next to accept the
default installation options.
After you complete Step 3, the setup program will finish installing the PWS software and prompt
you to restart the computer. While restarting your computer, Windows will load and start the PWS
for you. As such, when you next see your Windows desktop, look in the system tray at the right-hand
side of the Windows status bar and you will see the icon for the PWS. The following Tip will show
you how to manage the Web server and teach you how to publish your Web pages on the company
intranet and/or the Internet itself.

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