Guest Koh-i-Noor Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41866-what-is-a-good-real-server-for-mac-os-x/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41866-what-is-a-good-real-server-for-mac-os-x/#findComment-299316 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Koh-i-Noor Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 (edited) 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 Edited February 10, 2007 by Koh-i-Noor Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41866-what-is-a-good-real-server-for-mac-os-x/#findComment-299330 Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41866-what-is-a-good-real-server-for-mac-os-x/#findComment-299426 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dice7 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41866-what-is-a-good-real-server-for-mac-os-x/#findComment-303174 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41866-what-is-a-good-real-server-for-mac-os-x/#findComment-303185 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dice7 Posted February 14, 2007 Share Posted February 14, 2007 View this post i made about this. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=303145 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41866-what-is-a-good-real-server-for-mac-os-x/#findComment-303189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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