Naala Brewer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How does one go about changing the name of the swiki address from something
> like:
>
> http://129.237.99.138:8080
>
> to something more user-friendly like:
>
> http://www.ukans.edu/nsfgk12
for changing 129.237.99.138 you'll need to register your domain with one
of
the many available Registrars [does anybody know if Registrar is an english
world? it doesn't look like one (for me, non-english speaking person), but
it's
used anyway). But problably what Mark said is much better...
as for the :8080 part, it's not that easy.
A browser, by default connects to port 80 (like http://www.sdsf.edu:80)
so, for removing the :8080, you'll need to start your swiki on port 80 (insted
of 8080. But only root can do that in a Unix machine [I think you'll have no
problems for doing so in a Windows machine].
I you are root, the easiest way is to run the swiki in port 80 (shouldn't
be
any problems with that. Probably security issues [does anybody know if
there is a way of dropping priviledges from within Squeak, like with
OSProccess?].
And then, if you are not the owner of that machine, and in that machine
there is already another web server running in port 80, you can do something
like the php trick Pierre said, or you can tweak web server's configuration to
make it forward requests to your swiki's address (I think somebody already
tryed this with Apache)
Hope this makes any sence.
Webbing Bye!
Richie
