What is a good real server for Mac OS X?, By real, I mean one that hosts over the internet, not just in the neto Options

[Ramm]

I found that personal web sharing only enable the sharing of files over the network. So, I would like to know a good (free) web server for Mac OS X, that will allow people to connect to view my website over the internet (like a real .com website). I remember using Abyss X1 before and it worked, but now I can't seem to get it to work outside of the network. Thanks.

[asap18]

Personal Web Sharing is the REAL server. It use Apache (used on almost 60% of web servers in the world). It enables sharing on the network, but if you forward port 80 from your router to your mac serving the website and point your dns to your IP address it will be accessible from anywhere.

[Ramm]

I don't understand how people could connect to my router-assigned IP address. It doesn't make sense to me. Would they have to connect via the modem's IP address? I tried that and it didn't work.

Oh jeeze, I am a moron. That is right - if I forward my port it will work:

66.31.217.--->Router, port 80 forwards to>192.168.1.---=my computer. Duh.

Can you test it for me?:

http://66.31.217.254

This post has been edited by Koh-i-Noor: Feb 10 2007, 09:23 PM

[asap18]

yeah its fine. The ip you get within your network like 192.168.1.x, are just dhcp addresses. However your router holds you WAN ip, and by forwarding the port any connections to your wan ip which go to your router, are then forwarded to the dhcp address you set in the forwarding part. You need to do the same for ftp, mail, or ssh if you decide to use those.

[Dice7]

hehehe... its looks so simple once you know how it works. If you really want some fun get a Layer3 switch and start doing some VLans with QTag'in wooo hooo, then get a QTag enabled WiFi and do multi Vlans over one wireless AP. Gets my heart racing just thinking about it

Congratz on getting this worked out. Might want to modify the title to say its resolved.

Dice

[bwhsh8r]

I don't understand how people could connect to my router-assigned IP address. It doesn't make sense to me. Would they have to connect via the modem's IP address? I tried that and it didn't work.

Oh jeeze, I am a moron. That is right - if I forward my port it will work:

66.31.217.--->Router, port 80 forwards to>192.168.1.---=my computer. Duh.

Can you test it for me?:

http://66.31.217.254

works fine

[Dice7]

View this post i made about this.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=303145