It is a good idea to setup a personal web server on your machine. I am working only with Microsoft for the basic reason that it is all I know. If anyone has information on Mac or Linux, please, by all means share with us. IIS stands for Windows Internet Information Services and is the software to use for setting up your personal web server. With IIS (Internet Information Services) you can put together your website, see how it looks and functions, then upload the polished version of your web application to your virtual host. Microsoft has information on it's MSDN website about how to load IIS to your machine and which operating systems work with which version. MSDN stands for Microsoft Developer Network. The Operating Systems of Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 200 Server Professional all have IIS ready to install through add new programs in the control panel. Have your Windows CDs close by because sometimes it asks for you to insert the original program CD. The root directory for your web application will be the wwwroot directory. That wwwroot directory can be found at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot.
Next Post we will learn a bit about FTP transfer to get your files from your computer to your host server.
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