help Local Website

[FireFox2015]

So someone I know wants to launch a Local Website for our department that we can easily access and she want's to know what she needs to do and what is the minimum requirement for launching it.

 

Thanks in advance for the help.

[Enderman]

I think you need to elaborate on what you mean by 'local website'

[Oshino Shinobu]

What do you mean by local? In terms of networking, local means it's only available on a local network and not accessible over the internet.

 

If you mean local as a way of saying a small website, I'd look into someone like Wix or Squarespace who can provide hosting, design tools and domain names all in one place. 

[Vishera]

A website on the local network?

If that's the case then use XAMPP.

[FireFox2015]

A Local Website for our department only

[homeap5]

I think you need external ip, domain connected to that ip, Apache or other web server (fenix for example for HTML only) and that's it.

 

In most cases this solution will be worse than buying virtual webserver. You need computer that runs 24/7 and that is cost too. And this computer must be fast enough if your website uses php and complex scripts. You also need internet with fast upload.

[kirashi]

1 hour ago, FireFox2015 said:

A Local Website for our department only

For simply development / testing, you can use XAMPP, LAMP, WAMP, or a similar software package. Once you've got the development handled, you'll want to move to a linux box or linux based Virtual Machine with properly setup internal DNS pointers within the subnet.

[FireFox2015]

43 minutes ago, kirashi said:

For simply development / testing, you can use XAMPP, LAMP, WAMP, or a similar software package. Once you've got the development handled, you'll want to move to a linux box or linux based Virtual Machine with properly setup internal DNS pointers within the subnet.

For example if I use XAMPP can it handle the site running all the time??

[AbsoluteFool]

22 hours ago, FireFox2015 said:

For example if I use XAMPP can it handle the site running all the time??

XAMPP is a software. Not a operative system. The PC or server you run the software on should be able to run 24/7 either it be a Windows PC or enterprise server equiptment.

In theory all devices "can" run 24/7. Some might give you more trouble than other. People would prefer a dedicated server with a server OS to avoid unexpected shutdowns. Which often happen with regulare client OS like Windows 10.