title: Web server to host Sencha app?
body: <p>I am looking to develop some web app for my Android device. Found Sencha and think it might be a good tool to try out.</p>
  
  <p>I suppose I would need to find a web server to host the Sencha app to run the app? What kind of web server is needed? I suppose one that able to run HTML5, CSS, Javascript is enough?</p>
  
  <p>Can anybody recommend one (free one)?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>
  
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  <p>Thanks for the answers to the above post. I am new to this stuff, so got some more follow-up and somewhat related questions: </p>
  
  <p>1) I read from the Sencha site that the app can be developed locally using things like XAMPP installed on local Windows PC. Question -- Why need this local host when I can just use an external Web Host?</p>
  
  <p>2) It was also mentioned that for Windows may not need XAMPP if Window's Internet Information Server (IIS) is already running. How do I know if my computer is running this and so don't need to install another local server? (I asking this because I had installed an XAMPP before on another computer and things got quite messed up and so I want to avoid doing it if possible).</p>
  
  <p>3) Once I got a web host, to have an app running, I would just have to have the JS files in the web host together with the Sencha framework right? If so, then I don't understand what is meant by "Build" in the Sencha documentation. </p>
  
  <p>Thanks. </p>