From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 19 14:02:00 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D6E316A406 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:02:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net) Received: from smtp107.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp107.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B867F13C4AA for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:01:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net) Received: (qmail 81565 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2007 14:01:58 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=DmJvAYp4d8SIK9tMwVoiBHOD/pvaVHhOOHt3kQTb7+bTp8fL856EyVOd6DzPyuPoy0m1iJgS1gee3vNdOsxLiACNNDhqXZHjQO28s+t63u+Up0VZGz4AFdSDNA9rgDNvzPvE8BnacDqRUNLWEu2rLj/RARxbwHWyp7RRdmnOWso= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.3?) (wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net@70.142.248.62 with plain) by smtp107.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Feb 2007 14:01:58 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: bYwcxw0VM1mghdIT17VC0OmaW6S7ao.kY_1.aNyId_ZppXHNQM9GUH3OVNr4Uw5fnvFAOvhbwPoi496oh3op3fpNXIUTyrt9efjSqsXPynkaLAGJT05EwkebgJHy_zmE10G_Q2C_EmVpksplYM0AhVj6WDSw_JUM21.07YijOjN04scZoNw- Message-ID: <45D9ADD5.7010502@sbcglobal.net> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:01:57 -0600 From: Robert C Wittig User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Drew Jenkins References: <976727.72804.qm@web62210.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <976727.72804.qm@web62210.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Do I Surf To My Server? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:02:00 -0000 Drew Jenkins wrote: > Hi; > I have a production server that I've crashed a few times by working on it directly and making mistakes. As a result, I've finally built a mock server on my home PC on a separate hard drive with nothing but FBSD. I also have a laptop. All are connected by DHCP to a satellite dish. My question is, how can I surf my laptop to pull up Web pages generated from the home-based FBSD machine? What kind of networking is necessary? How do I call it up? Can this be handled through DHCP, or do I need to use BIND? Or something else? What good resources are out there for studying this? The FBSD manual wasn't much help, unfortunately. > > Conversely, I could surf to the FBSD machine from the FBSD machine. But I built this mock server like my workhorse...no mouse, no X, no browser. Would I have to rebuild it to incorporate those? Or just build stuff from ports? Finally, which solution is easiest...surfing from the laptop or from the FBSD machine? Assuming that you have Apache (or whatever) started and running, and that both computers are on the LAN (usually in the 192.168.xxx.xxx range) you should be able to access your internal website by typing in the private IP address of the server, into your browser, for example: http://192.168.1.11/ -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . http://robertwittig.net/ . http://robertwittig.org/