Hi,

I am trying to create and host a website of my own but I don't know how to do it. I did some reseach online but can't really understand anything since it's my first time and I don't know any of the terms used. I know I need to register a domain with a registrar if I want a domain of my own. I don't know anything besides that. I have seen something about DNS.

Will someone explain and teach me how to host a website from scratch?

Thank you

I am actually doing this just for fun but I really do want to learn

Me too.
I have been wanting to do this for months; I now have all the stuff and just have to set it.

On which point do you need explanations ?

You can download filezilla to allocate your folders (there can't be capitalized letters) and files on the server of a domain, which you can pay for or take one from those sites that provide free ones. Also, look for tutorials about filezilla, it's as simple as click and drag (literally, haha). Good luck, boys.

>>3 Nah, that just answers the problem partially.

>>1 At first, you need a old computer, a small computer (lot of ppl use a raspberry pi), or anything that can run 24/7 at your home. Pay attention to the electricity bill. After, you need a domain name.

Then, you should set this computer ready : Either you install every single software you need (that's the most interesting way, yet it looks a bit long _check out at your library for resources), or you install a specialized OS or set of softwares, like Yunohost or AlternC. (check out on the internet to find others).

Then, you should set them.

Lastly, can you tell me if your IP address is always the same or not ?

Yea it is

Cool, then you see with your registrar, how to link your domain to this ip address, and I guess that's all.

>>3 That's bullshit...

>>1 Here. I kind of made a guide on how to set up a server https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ab3JBvdU4NvO57W6k7h34NYe8NgVEplp_ctUtaFRk5c/pub

Enjoy

>>7 Thanks !

I just hope I helped, Hiroki. :D

There are multiple ways of hosting a website:

1. Through buying domain name, this is not free though.

2. Upload http files to google drive and share the link from there - can always shorten the link

3. Upload files to Github and host from there.

4. Set it up from your home which can be done in following steps(note that there is no domain name but website is accessible from your public ip and will not be up if you shut down your computer):

i) Get a web server either through downloading XAMP or can be done through 1 line of Python code (can easily google).

ii) Get your computer ip address and gateway ip address (ipconfig in windows) These are private inner IP addresses not your public IP address.

iii) login to your router through your gateway, go to "port forwarding" which may be under router firewall.

Although different router have different interface, I will assume these are common among many.

Select for Web Server.
Server IP address: [your computer ip]
Select TCP or TCP/UDP and put port 80 on both sides.

iv) Go google.com type "what is my ip address"
Google will show you your public ip address. Share this to your friend and they can see your website.

Basically, your router get a connection from outside and it knows where to direct/forward the HTTP(port 80) connection to your computer in your network. Without port forwarding, your router has no idea who to direct the http request to.

XAMP or WAMP

>>11 congratulations on summarizing my guide in a few points...

>>12 I didn't realised your link was there until I posted it. I just upload whatever I did in my past experience.

Btw, your link is great! I like the last part where you can get a domain name to the ip

Huh. I thought OP asked 'how to host a website' in terms of setting a domain up and running instead of making a whole server.
((Btw saving >>7's document. Looks very useful.))

There are many different parts involved when making a website. Just asking 'how to make a website from scratch' is, therefore, very vague. Making as in - creating its content? Or making as in designing its look? Or is it about hosting the website on the World Wide Web? How to mantain it? Or, how it was described by the others in this thread, making as in creating a webserver?

OP is asking about hosting(making the web server accessible from public), not how to create a web server. That is under software engineering.

>>13 Thank you man... :D

>>14 Thank you too.. I spend about 4 hours writing it... And also, Kokoro, he does say that he wants to know "about hosting the website on the World Wide Web" (the "host a website" part of the OP's post gives it away). And the OP would need a server to test his work on or in fact "create a website"... It's no good just creating a new folder on the desktop and creating index.html with a side of style.css. In most cases, even if you "" style.css in the index.html's head, the CSS markup won't work on the browser, but I'm unsure about that, because when I started to markup pages, I didn't know CSS. But anyhow, testing or creating without a server sucks...

>>15 Yes, I agree; we're not creating Apache3 (we're not genius enough to know about sockets and connections and treading neither do we know the IPv4/IPv6 protocol protocols). We're installing Apache2 (a server) so that he can host his website so that he can create and tests it. It's kind of like software engineering, but not completely, however, I don't know how to correctly categorize it.

the thing in between the empty speech marks is meant to be "<link>"... The website's filter probably filtered it out...

>>16 But since OP also stated that he does this 'just for fun' I would have expected that the suggested methods are amateur-friendlier - like rcommending him a free online webserver service. (Lima-city? Bplaced? Square7? Or are these just common in the german area?) Telling him how to make a whole server just felt a bit overwhelming to me o-ö;

>>18 u haven't been reading, have u? We did not tell him how to make a WHOLE SERVER. We told him how to configure stuffs.

--face palm--