Run your own website using Abyss Web Server

Abyss Web Server turns your computer in a full-featured web server. With it, people all over the Internet can view documents, download graphics, listen to music and even view movies hosted on it. Abyss Web Server was designed with both novice and experienced users in mind.

That’s why it is easy to use and incredibly powerful. It is a multiplatform web server software designed for Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Millennium Edition (ME), NT 3.51 (and higher), 2000, XP (all editions), 2003, Vista (all editions), 2008 (all editions), Mac OS X 10.2 (and higher), Linux 2.0 (and higher), and FreeBSD 6.0 (and higher) systems.

You may get the free edition from http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws. Also be sure to check out my previous posts on how to setup your own FTP server and how to setup a quick file server.

Installation is a breeze and hassle free. To start your own web site, browse the program directory of Abyss, which is in C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs (you may need to change this path depending on where you install the program).

The htdocs folder is the root web folder. Put all your HTML files there along with the folders, images and other necessary web files. By default it will be associated in port 80 of your local IP address: http://127.0.0.1

This server is fast and I love its support for PHP , Perl, Python, “Classic” ASP, ASP.NET, Ruby On Rails, and other scripting languages. Compared to Apache, it supports more languages so this is a big plus for developers who want to test their scripts on a single server.

The port 9999 is used by the server program as its console. So even when port 80 is turned off, the port 9999 is still active to support the system configuration:

I love this software because it means there is another free web server around besides Apache. Unlike IIS that runs only on Windows, this program could run on other OS like Linux and Mac OS.