How to Install Apache Web Server on your PC, Practical Uses

A web server is software installed on a computer, must possess all the necessary conditions to serve or deliver web pages that are requested by Web browsers, ensuring that they display correctly all the elements necessary for operation and visualization.

There are several types of web servers, Apache is an open source software, free to use and fully configurable, is currently the most used in the network, either Linux or Windows. When installed on our PC will have a complete server with all the requirements to run locally.

Advantages it provides have installed the Apache web server on our computer.

With the installation of Apache is possible to have in our PC for a small server that will enable us, among other tasks:

1 - Try and see web pages as they truly are to be displayed from the internet before uploading to a host or server on the network. Useful and indispensable if you have or you will create your site by modest he is.

2 - Create Virtual Host module by multiple Web sites on our PC, which you can download with wget and access them on the net like this time locally.

3 - Being able to see locally made websites in PHP.

4 - Serve our pages or directly to the Internet website, which you can access and connect to anyone from the outside, in this case of course the server's operation shall be limited to time we have run the PC and the possibilities of our connection. It can be a very encouraging experience for any fan, this possibility has the advantage that it is not necessary to rely on any company or remote server to upload content to the network you want to display. It's like riding a small radio station and start broadcasting (similarity) but in this case the scope is global.

5 - can act as an intermediary between our computer and internet which gives us several advantages in the field of security.

6 - Through the internet he can serve multiple PCs connected over a local network.

6 - It is possible to activate a module that allows to cache all pages loaded which will improve the performance of our navigation.

On the next page you can read a tutorial that guides you step by step to install Apache, is made for people who do not have advanced knowledge, if so you will be really easy to install and configure.

How to install and configure the Apache web server on Windows.

This one page will be essential if this topic interests you, explains how to configure VirtualHost you have in your PC will allow multiple virtual sites, is fantastic.

Configure Apache Virtual Host module to the PC have multiple virtual sites.

Have Apache and not use Wget is unacceptable, read here about this amazing application.

Using wget to download files from internet