Retro dos web server.

One of my special projects is to help keep older computer equipment viable. This can be especially important for those who are less privileged.   Your goal is to make a networkable pentium one computer act as a home web server.


Thought about experimenting do home automation or other things with the parallel port that the web server can act as an interface to for control, but have not made time to do that.

Step 1 Software.

We need to install freedos on the hard disk so we have a place for all the software we will need.  We will also need the ethernet card driver,  Well then what other software might one need?  A TCPIP stack basied on Trumpet winsock. and then the web server.  We can download that. Secondly we need a way to serve out a web page. I vaguely remembered a web server for dos called Boa.  it is still around but pretty much just in C source code format. Do not really want to have to deal with all of that. Fortunately, I happened across a program called Webserv.

References:
http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/packet.htm
http://www.rubbermallet.org/software/webserv.html
http://files.oldos.org/files/dos/pk250dos.exe