Need help getting a small intranet websiteworking

I work in a small company with a windows NT server which all computers are connected up to for the network.

I would like to set up a website where everyone in building can access a database through webforms. I have worked on small projects on my home PC with PHP,MySQL, and apache as the server (Downloaded PHPDEV4) so I am familiar with the designing of the site.

PROBLEM..... how do I go about setting up a webserver in the building and allowing others to access it from their workstations????? I'm not too familiar with networking!

You'll need a static IP address - once it's setup everyone should be able to access the pages via the IP

Thanks!!

This site is only for people in the building so would i be right in setting up apache on the server and have the static IP address

eg. URL
it was something simlar to this when I set downloaded phpdev4 on my home PC & I set up the computer name as localhost so the IP address was
URL

Can the others just access this by going into the browser & typing in URL

Am I heading in the right direction????

Thanks for your help
Dee

In a couple of words.... not quite! :>)

localhost and 127.0.0.1 are internal to the machine you are on i.e. it resolves only to that machine.

You'll need to have a true IP (can be an internal one) so ask your IT chaps for one or take a look at what the IP is for the machine it's to be running on - and then make sure that that IP never changes in the future.