Hi Clarry,

You'll need to have a web service stack installed to be able to handle http requests; either a WAMP stack for windows or a LAMP stack for linux (( read Windows or Linux), Apache, Mysql, PHP ).

LAMP Stack

Stack Overflow is a very useful site for info but there are plenty of stacks out there and they are easilly installed.

The MySQL part is optional but you will need a DB you can work with and MySQL is pretty common for most applications.

(I did mention CouchDB and PouchDB earlier as one possible option)

In reality though, if you don't want to be fussing about heaps, you should be working in the Linux environment (windows is a very complicated beast when it comes to setting up connections).

Security is an issue too as you will be opening your network up to the big bad world so a web server should normally be the network server and very well firewalled (as should each machine on the network).

Another reason to install Linux is that the component installs will not (usually) create any system conflicts.