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I wonder every one of you who uses XP Pro would setup a web server just at
the times you turned on your computer. Is it secure? I'd like to let my
friends see my homepage while I am working on the computer, otherwise i'll
turn it off and the web server is said to be down, would that also burden
the PC performance?... comments are welcome

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Jack
 
I wonder every one of you who uses XP Pro would setup a web server just at
the times you turned on your computer. Is it secure? I'd like to let my
friends see my homepage while I am working on the computer, otherwise i'll
turn it off and the web server is said to be down, would that also burden
the PC performance?... comments are welcome
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Unless you have a NAT device or a firewall appliance it's a bad idea -
if you are going to run a website on your PC for friends to view / test,
then do it on a non-standard port, like 8090 so that it's not directly
attacked as soon as you start it: http://your_ip_address:8090 and then
forward port 8090 to your workstations IP.

Keep in mind, if you don't hide it, if you don't protect it, if you
don't lock it down, you WILL be compromised.
 
If you think you are so popular that hosting a basic web page while you are
using your computer is going to slow you down, then get another system.

Seriously though, it is no more or less secure if you are useing versus
being idle, and web serving is not generally resource intensive. It sure
could be, but unless you have a custom developed site with active content,
compiled code, and use a tiered system, which I am doubting here, then it
won't slow you down and no should be able to tell you are looking at content
of questionable merit.

All that said, you are probably not secure. I will guess your system is on
the DMZ port of your router. Just a guess.

Use google, or search this newsgroup and try and find out about PAT and NAT,

--
Manny Borges
MCSE NT4-2003 (+ Security)
MCT, Certified Cheese Master

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
-- Marty Feldman
 
Leythos said:
Unless you have a NAT device or a firewall appliance it's a bad idea -
if you are going to run a website on your PC for friends to view / test,
then do it on a non-standard port, like 8090 so that it's not directly
attacked as soon as you start it: http://your_ip_address:8090 and then
forward port 8090 to your workstations IP.

Keep in mind, if you don't hide it, if you don't protect it, if you
don't lock it down, you WILL be compromised.
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More bullshit from Leythos. What's the point of having a web server and then
hiding it?! Geez.

Mind you, maybe I'm thinking of running Apache on a Linuxbox. Running a web
server on Windoze might be a whole different thing since it would be
running on such an insecure operating system to start with.
 
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