Absolute Beginner, Need Help Bad

[jlacroix]

I am an independent game designer, but I have no site for my games!

I have a domain name, www.oriontide.com, with no hosting. I don't have any form of a credit card to buy hosting with and I require alot of space to store all the games I made.

I was looking at Apache and I need to know a site that will allow me to set up a server so everyone can go to my site and view my page, and download my games.

Can Apache do this for me?

If there are any helpful "Apache for dummies" websites that would rock. I want to get a site up fast.

[visualAd]

Yes Apache will allow you to do this. If you have rather large games it is best that you host it off a broadband connection with unlimited upstream bandwidth.

The following steps should get your server up and running:

Download the latest version of Apache here (http://httpd.apache.org/).
Install it, if possible as a service which starts up with windows.
Test the server has started by navigating to the following address. http://127.0.0.1/. If you see the Apache welcome page then all is well.

Now you need to make sure people from outside your computer can access the server. Find out your IP address you were given by your ISP, if your IP is dynamic you'll need to purchase a domain name and register with http://www.dyndns.org/.

Once it has all been set up you can modify the documents in you your document root. This is by default:

C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\htdocs

Delete all the files from that direcrtory and put the files in there you want people to download. When they visit your server they will see a list of the files you have put there.

[JPnyc]

Thanks, bud.;)