On Feb 10, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Bruce Ryan wrote:
> > Hi folks > > My free ISP, who hosted a website I used to share photos and snippets > of Bruce-life with fiends and family, has gone belly-up. > > I don't want to allow outside access to my main mac but my Pismo is > underused these days. So what are folks' thoughts on using it as a > webserver? It would be attached to my ADSL router. Can I allow the > outside world access to it, while keeping the other machines invisible > to anyone outside my network? You'll need to set up NAT to forward port 80 to the Pismo, but I've heard of a number of folks using one as a web server. Set up Web sharing, and use the /Library/WebServer/Documents folder to have the web site at the root level of your IP address. If you put the website in your user folder, you have to put http://ip address/ ~username/ as your web site. Another very good idea is to get a dyndns address for yourself: <http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/ >, and install the OSX client on the pismo to update things. Of course, you'll want to make sure the pismo doesn't sleep. too :-) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
