I had a old Pentium 2 400MHz with a 6 gig drive, and 128mb of ram. I had a cable line and my Damn Small Linux. I decided to make a server and had great success.

In this guide you will have to have knowledge on command promp commands in shells like bash!

Here's what I did:

Install DSL (Damn Small Linux)
Went to apachefriends.org and downloaded xampp

Xampp is great for a server. It is a 23mb package with Apache (with php 5), ProFTPd, phpMyAdmin, and MySQL To install it all you do is unzip it in the /opt/ directory with this command:
tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.4.7.tar.gz -C /opt

To start it, you simply enter this command:
/opt/lampp/lampp start

If you want to make it more secure use this command:
/opt/lampp/lampp security
This promps for password protection.

To upload your files, use a ftp client like filezilla with the user "nobody" and the password "lampp". This is the default! If you secured your server, it world be: user: "nobody" password would be the password provided for proFTPd.

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Here I will cover how to access your server.

If you don't have a router, go to: whatismyip.com and that would be the ip address to your server. Just copy that ip to your URL bar and press go.

If you do have a router type "192.168.1.1" in your browser. When it promps for your login, type that. If you don't have a login just type "admin" in the password area.
Once you are in router config, go to the advanced button on that navigation bar, then to DMZ host. This will forward your server past the router so people outside your network can see it. With a router you should see your server on the network at the ip: 192.168.1.102 so in the DMZ host box you enter 102. Now go back to the basic mode (button is now where advanced was) and go to status. It will say your ip to access by "wan".


Now that your server it up and running,, so you don't have to remember your ip, go to cjb.net and sign up for free redirection.

Good luck with your server and enjoy!