webserver?

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What would it require for me to setup a webserver for personal use? What I mainly want to do is just setup a windows server then mess around with it to see what it is like. It can be ran locally (if at all possible) since my isp does not allow servers to be ran.

I would like to have php enabled on it. And mysql eventually but my experience with setting those two things up are not the best as the one time I attempted it mysql never did work right.

And what would the system requirements need to be for something like this? I'm assuming it doesn't need to be anything too powerful.

Thanks