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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO
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> My home network is behind a cable modem router(*) so I can access the
> Internet from various computers in the house. Is it possible to
> limit access
> from outside to just the webserver? I would not want outsiders to nose
> around on the other computers in the network.
>
> (*) Or at least, that will be the situation by the time I actually start
> setting up a webserver.
Assuming that your home network uses DHCP or NAT, you'll have to use a
service such as EasyDNS to propagate your IP address. As long as you only
"publish" that machine's address, no other machine would be reachable from
outside. On the other hand, if you have static, routable IP addresses (very
unlikely if they do cable modem service the way it is here), they'll all be
accessible unless you block them with a firewall.
Are you looking for server space for Brin-L stuff? A couple of months ago,
I didn't tell you, but I once again tried to set up a secure way for you to
use space on my server. But I couldn't figure out how to keep your sandbox
secure while also giving the web server access to it. I'm certain it's
possible and if this is for Brin-related stuff, I'll give it another shot if
you like.
And if anyone here knows how to configure a chrooted ftp sandbox so that
Apache has access to it under Red Hat Linux 7.1, please tell me. And not if
you only know in theory! Theoretically, I've tried all sorts of things that
didn't work.
Come to think of it, I have another way to do it -- I have a Win2000 box
running Apache as well. The downside of using it is that it's my dev
machine and so it sometimes becomes very heavily loaded and occasionally
rebooted.
Come to think of it, I have yet another solution. I have a Mac doing
nothing, which runs Yellow Dog Linux. I could make that machine completely
available to you. Anyone know if Apache performance is reasonable on a
7500/100 Power Mac?
Nick
