Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:02:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Dennis <jim@starshine.org> To: ajohn@cyberforge.com (Anil John) Cc: jim@starshine.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dial up (dynamic IP) Web Server - Possible? Message-ID: <199607090102.SAA03058@starshine> In-Reply-To: <01BB6D03.35704420@ppp25.bcpl.lib.md.us> from "Anil John" at Jul 8, 96 07:24:57 pm
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> > Jim Dennis[SMTP:jim@starshine.org] wrote: > > > > > I think you are suffering from a fundamental misunderstanding > > of how internet services in general (and the web in particular) > > are supposed to work. > > Jim, > > Thank you for your detailed clarification of how internet services in > general (and the web in particular) work. > > > Do you want to just play with a server that you can access > > "from the outside"? You can do that by bringing up your connection > > and pointing your browser at the dynamic IP address. Do you want > > to play with apache add-in modules? You can do that on the > > localhost anyway. > > Exactly. This is just for my amusement. I am new to Unix/FreeBSD and to > Web Servers and I figured that setting something like this up would be a > good way for me to learn about both. My provider drops connections after a > 3 hour time frame so I would not know what dynamic IP address to point to, > from the outside, if I exceed that time frame. > > > So, what are you planning on publishing on your pages? > > > Nothing that is of earth shattering import :). > > Anil No problem, Just point your web browser at your dynamic IP address by number like so: http://192.168.1.1:80/path/to/your/pages (where 192...: is replaced by your IP address, :80 is replaced by the port on which you're running the daemon (optional), and /path.../ is replaced with optional path and option file name (relative to your "document root" as set in httpd.conf).
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