Lets go back to the basic. When we’re going to activate our web pages, another elements that’s important is web server, without it, we could access our web pages. So what really is web server, lets find out more.
Web server is either hardware or software that provide access facilities to users on opening web pages, the protocol use are http and https, and some using it as online storage media and online application.
As I mention before, web server could be hardware or software. Hardware if the server specifically for web server purposes only, while software is form in serial of program that could be install in certain computer according to its minimum requirements.
The famous and easy installation web server software are XAMP and WAMP. Both of them will install web server packages that at least consists of MySQL, PHP, and Apache. While WAMP works on Windows platform, XAMP able to be install in *nix, and windows platform. If you’d like to use what you have, then if you’re using windows, you could use IIS that are bundle inside the windows.
But how does it works? Lets see. When we’re typing an address in your browser, the web server will recognized it as an address location, so that web server will give the result then transfer it back in your screen. The recognization actually based on ip address, and thats why you could use ip address as alias or in exchange of the url address.
Its pretty simple isn’t it, now you gain more knowledge with web development.