Windows Server 2016 Datacentre Laravel Website

Hey there,

I'm pretty noob at all of this, I basically know enough to be dangerous to myself. I have an older pc that I have turned into a Windows Server 2016 that I run at my home network, and I want to be able to run my own website off of it and host my larvel project. So far if I got to my page baelandworld.ca I get a "Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server." However if I put up a index.html page with hello world or something on it, I will load and see that. So I'm close, but I'm missing something. I'm wondering if anyone can help point me in the right direction as my google fu has not turned up anything and I'm not sure what I need to do/ what I'm missing. Any help would be great. Would rather use the resources I have rather than have to pay for hosting somewhere else, or set up something totally different. If its just not doable though maybe its not and I need to build things differently.

Tray2

2 years ago

Level 73

You need to set up a web server. I suggest ditching Windows since 2016 is outdated and has reached EOL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-server-2016

I would go with a linux sever instead, they utilize the hardware much better, and the vast majority of web servers are running on linux.

https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/installing-nginx-with-php-and-mysql-on-ubuntu-lemp/

You can of course run a ny Linux dist you like, but my preference is Ubuntu. If you choose another dist you can probably find tutorials for that as well on the site I linked.

tank5064

2 years ago

Level 1

Thant explains a lot. okay, thank you I will do that then.

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