Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Hosting your own website

Hai all n Readers of my blog...

In this blog i am gonna discuss how to convert your own pc into server and host your own website...

First of all download Wamp server from this following site http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php .Wamp server is nothin but a mixture of apache,php,mysql....install it in ur pc..after installion it will create a folder called wamp in the destination u mentioned.

From start->all Programs->wamp ..start the service...it will appear in the taskbar as a small icon...

Click that and u wiil find wwwdirectory folder .inside it delete all the files and put your own website.... and close the folder

now in the taskbar again click it and put the server online....by this u have converted ur pc into webserver.....kool...

So how to access ur website???

Pretty easy go to cmd prompt and type ipconfig..this will fire ur system ip address...thats it

now http://yourip/ (Ex-http://122.164.45.23/ some thing like that)kool u can access ur website now..give the link to ur friends and ur done...thats it


Ur comments are most welcome..........

Sunday, April 5, 2009

A Light Weight Intrusion Detection tool-SNORT

Hai all n Readers of my blog...

In this blog i am going to share some ideas about the Best Intrusion Detection Tool called Snort which is an open source software...

Main WebPage-www.snort.org

This tool is available both in windows and linux version....I am using the windows version and i am gonna discuss the same here......


Installing Snort:

First of all download the latest version of Snort from the site mentioned and click the binary installer file to install...After installing it Install WinPcap s/w which is necessary of windows users

The next step is to register in Snort Forum and download the Rules File from it and add it to the folder where u have installed the snort..C:/ or D:..I assume u have installed it in C:

Configuring Snort:

The next step is to configure the Snort tool according to the requirements of ur Network...
all changes are made in Snort.Config file in the location c:\Snort\etc\snort.config

----Details to be posted-------