On Friday, Nov 7, 2003, at 17:14 Canada/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 03:59 PM -0600 11/07/2003, Pat Heidingsfelder wrote:It seems my ISP (Sympatico HSE) blocks port 80. I got around this by setting my web server (MacHTTP) to use port 8080, and setting my router to do port forwarding for port 8080. Of course, people who want to access the web site need to add :8080 at the end of the URL.I have been trying to configure my Mac as a web server also, I believe the problem is within my router, I can view the page within my LAN but not from the 'outside'. For some reason, my router is not doing the port forwarding that I am asking it to. Any advice?
Double-check the port forwarding.
You want to forward your public IP address, on the *outside* (WAN) interface, port 80, to the private IP address of your serving Mac, on the *inside* (LAN) interface, also on port 80.
If course, getting that to work, even if your router is set correctly, is contingent on your ISP not blocking port 80 in their routers...
My router (an Asant� FR1004AL) also includes a dynamic DNS client which works with dyndns.org. The latter allows you to open a free account and pick up to five hostnames, eg yourname.myphotos.cc. If your ISP assigns a dynamic IP, as mine does, each time the IP changes, the router sends the new IP to the dyndns.org server, which then propagates it to DNS servers all over. Thus, people who want to access your website need to use only the URL you pick, eg yourname.myphotos.cc:8080/.
I'm running MacHTTP (freeware) under OS 9.1 on a 7200/120. I edit web pages on my Pismo running OS 10.2.8, using Taco HTML edit (also freeware). Not only does this editor use the safari HTML engine to render your html files, but it can save the modified files directly to the 7200 directory via my intranet, so that the website stays up while being modified.
Henry
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