How do I make a shared hosting service on a

[Austin C]

Windows machine? Right now I have an old IBM computer sitting around with Windows XP Home, 512mb of RAM, 40gb hard drive space, and a Pentium 4 2.4ghz processor. And I was wondering how I would make a small shared hosting service for about 10 friends and myself for free? I have searched all over the internet and have found nothing.

[Andrew L]

Web/file hosting? its possible.
1 is abyss web server
http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/

another is apache
http://httpd.apache.org/

Just put the files you want to host into the htdocs folder. To access them, http://"yourdomain/ip"/(name of file or folder)
sample

http://58.486.361.15/hi.doc

or you can use
http://127.0.0.1/hi.doc
But this is only possible when your using the computer where you are hosting the files