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I need website help, I already created it, how do you make it public?

I created a website under my localhost with apache, but now I want to make it available to the world. How can I do this?

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  • 9 years ago
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    All you need now is hosting space and a domain name (address for your website), checkout sites like or similar to godaddy.com or bluehost.com

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  • 9 years ago

    Generally, a website goes "public" when it has a domain name (address of website like "google.com" or "yahoo.com"). To have a domain name, you need to get it registered and pay a yearly fee to keep it yours.

    Once you have a domain name, you need to connect it with a web hosting server. Which means that whenever someone types your domain name in their browser, it will get connected to this web server and pull the web page files you have just created in your localhost. i.e. Apache running on a actual live server. You will be given a control panel (generally called cPanel) where you will have to upload your website's files.

    You can visit godaddy or hostgator or any other website that provides Domain Name Registration and Web Hosting service. They will provide you with all instructions to make it easy.

    If you are extremely familiar with Linux and wish to set up your own web server, you can use Amazon Web Services where you will have your own Linux server and you will have to set up all the necessary software like Apache yourself. This is recommended only after you have gained thorough experience with web hosting and administration.

  • 9 years ago

    You will need to publish your website to the internet first after that if you would like to get traffic both free an paid traffic for cheap check out this site http://createmeasuccessfulwebsite.com/Build_Tons_O... it worked for me!!!!!

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