>> 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?
> 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. Serving within seconds on the home network as pismo.lan. > 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. Setting up router dead easy, thanks to its 'choose a service to set up on this 'puter' feature. Now serving outside world at http:// my_IP_address > 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. Finally got around to this. Once I'd read their instructions, dead easy. > Of course, you'll want to make sure the pismo doesn't sleep. too :-) Pismo is usually more awake than I am! Seriously, huge thanks to you for the advice, and to dyndns (and OSX and apache) for making it so easy. cheers Bruce --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
