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This plugin allows you to create a small WWW server on your PC. This plugin is very small (80kb of size !) and quite fast.
As far as I know it's the smallest WWW server you can have !
But this plugin is FULLY functional ! It's multithreaded and quite useful.

How can I ...?

Q: I'm a member of LAN network and I'm not directly connected to Internet - is it possible for me to set a WWW server ?
A: Generally speaking: YES. You don't have to take any additional efforts in order to set up WWW server visible only in your LAN network.
But if you want your server to be visible from Internet you have to speak to your network administrator - ask him to set a HTTP TUNNELING (can also be called: IP forwarding).
If you don't know what it is - read this example:
My computer is also visible only for our LAN network. Our main WWW server (the only one visible from Internet) has this address: http://pa150.pradnik-czerwony.sdi.tpnet.pl - I asked my LAN admin to set a HTTP TUNNELING at port 81 to my computer. Now if anyone tries to connect to our main server on port 81 this data is relayed to my own (non visible directly from Internet) computer (and to this plugin !). All you have to do is type something like: http://pa150.pradnik-czerwony.sdi.tpnet.pl:81. You should be able to do the same :)

Q: How can I test if my server is working ?
A: Run your browser and type: http://localhost .
If in "Advanced settings" you specified a port different than 80 you have to test your server by entering such address: http://localhost:XX where XX is the new port number (don't forget about : between computer name and port).
If you want to test if your server works from computer other than yours - please run www browser and type: http://your_ip or http://your_ip:port_number (if port number is different than 80).

Q:How can I found out my IP address ?
A:There are several ways. The easiest is to run MS-DOS box, type IPCONFIG.EXE and press enter

Q:I want to set up a server but my IP address changes frequently...
A:I recommend you to use DynIP or free WinIP software.

Q:I don't know what's wrong. I'm directly connected to Internet, I can browse my site by: http://localhost and http://my_ip, people can ping my computer but can't connect to my web site !
A:Some ISP (Internet Service Providers) are blocking all outgoing traffic on port 80 (default for web servers) try to change it into 81 or 120 - should help. If not - drop an email to your ISP and ask them if they block you.

Q:I want to share many, many files and subdirectories. But when I enter in my browser something like: http://my_IP/my_direcotry - there is an error message instead of directory structure. Why is this?
A:Well...to show a directory structure WWW server must be capable of generating at run-time a HTML file with it. Unfortunately, this version of SMALL WWW SERVER doesn't have this ability. But of course you can create a WWW page with links to all your files and share them.
But don't be sad ! ;-D I'm working on another plugin (MEDIUM WWW SERVER) that will have this ability (as well as some others). Then you will be able to make a choice if you want smaller and faster SMALL or more powerful (but bigger) MEDIUM plugin.

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1 - Enter here a path to main directory of your server. Use "..." button to browse for this directory.
2 - Please note a difference: When surfing the net a user might enter in browser something like: www.yahoo.com/something.html - this means: open me the something.html file on computer named www.yahoo.com. All clear! But what if this user types just a name of server without any file name? For example www.yahoo.com/? Then the server will try to open a default file - usually something like: index.html. If you want your server to be that smart as well, then enter the default file name that your computer should try to open if no file is specified.
3 - Click here to set up some advanced options like: time-out value, port of server, and path to YOUR OWN customized error messages (those error messages are just a HTML files that would be shown when requested file is not found or requested method is not implemented).
4 - Current status of server.
5 - Some statistics.
6 - You can tick those check-boxes to enable flashing your keyboard's LEDs when someone is accessing your server. Since flashing scroll lock is usually OK - think twice before you enable flashing Num lock - if you use this button, then random changes in its status could become very irritating.
7 - This button will show some info about plugin and authors.
8 - This is info about authors of this plugin.
9 - Here you can change status of the server. Remember that you can pause this plugin also by selecting "Pause all background activity." menu item from the tray menu.

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Changes:

Version 1.3:

• if you have installed Tray Helper 1.8 (or more recent version) - this plugin will appear in language of main application.

Version 1.2:

• in 1.1 when file had "read only" attribute access to such file was not possible (error 404 resource not found) - it's fixed now