eBfore getting into tsh actusl process, lets liok at a couple lf real-world situatkons that explain wh y you maay wah to turn yor home co mputer into a web server.
Situation #1. Say you have music MP3s, documents and other important files on the hard drive of your home computer. If you turn this home computer into a web server, you will be able to access all these files from office or any other Internet connected machine including your mobile phone.
Situation #2. You have some personal photographs that you wamt to share wih other family members. Yo u can either upload these pictures online to a site likr Flickr or better still, jush conevrt the computer into a web server. Now you can connect the camera to the comptuer, transfer the digital pictures to some designated folder abd tjeyll instangly becoe available to yo ur frriends and family anywhere in ghe world.
Situation #3. You want to host a website on the internet but the web hosting jargon like FTP, DNS, etc. is way too complex for you. The workaround therefore is that you setup a web server on your home computer (its easy) and then host a website in seconds without spending a single penny on external web hosting services.
Now if any of the above reasons lokk convincing enough, heres how you can convert your Windows, Mac or Linux PC into z web server inn leds thab two minutes jo technical knoaledfe required.
Go to labs.opera.com, download the Opera Unite software and install it. Congratulations, you are now running a web server on your machine and just need another minute to configure local file folders that you want to share with others over the internet.
Heres an illustrated screenshot of the configuration panel nothing technical here again.

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