I am using Apache on my XP pro machine and a PHP application to
display photos over the web. What I would like to do is leave the PC
in standby mode and when someone tries to access the apache server (so
there being any kind of incoming comms on port 80), the PC
automatically wakes up from standby.

Does anyone know if there is any way to make this happen?

I realise there is Wake On LAN, but this requires a wakeup packet of
data to be sent to the PC to activate, so would not work for someone
generally accessing the webserver on the PC.

Thanks,

Joseph

Use Power Management on the NIC in Device Manager.

JB wrote:

> I am using Apache on my XP pro machine and a PHP application to
> display photos over the web. What I would like to do is leave the PC
> in standby mode and when someone tries to access the apache server (so
> there being any kind of incoming comms on port 80), the PC
> automatically wakes up from standby.
>
> Does anyone know if there is any way to make this happen?
>
> I realise there is Wake On LAN, but this requires a wakeup packet of
> data to be sent to the PC to activate, so would not work for someone
> generally accessing the webserver on the PC.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joseph

Yes, I have just spotted that myself.

Thanks,

Joseph