hosting own site on my pc

[yuan189]

Hi guys, Just for some testing actually. I've a dsl connection and know what my ip add is and I have a domain name. And also an apache server installed on my system. Now if were to change my domain dns to point to my current ip add, will people able to surf my testing site with www.mydomain.com? Do i need to set anything on apache? thanks in advanced.

[embj]

Yep, everything should work fine if you point the dns to your computer. Make sure in Apache that you have editied the config file to look like (make sure you insert your info):
#
# Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or
# ports, instead of the default. See also the <VirtualHost>
# directive.
#
# Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to
# prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses (0.0.0.0)
#
#Listen Insert your IP ADDRESS HERE:80
Listen 80
_________________________________

And that you have changed:
#
# ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to identify itself.
# This can often be determined automatically, but we recommend you specify
# it explicitly to prevent problems during startup.
#
# If this is not set to valid DNS name for your host, server-generated
# redirections will not work. See also the UseCanonicalName directive.
#
# If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here.
# You will have to access it by its address anyway, and this will make
# redirections work in a sensible way.
#
ServerName INSERT YOUR IP ADDRESS HERE:80
_____________________________________

Make sure you leave on the :80 at the end of your IP address. That tells Apache what port your web traffic is coming through.

[ShawnD1]

Originally posted by embj

ServerName INSERT YOUR IP ADDRESS HERE:80
_____________________________________

Make sure you leave on the :80 at the end of your IP address. That tells Apache what port your web traffic is coming through.

well actually you don't need to do that, the port was specified in the cvar above.
the only thing that matters is if the DNS points to the correct IP. i've put the wrong IP under ServerName tons of times and it still works... I think the only purpose of that cvar is for error reporting like when a client tries to load a non existant page it will say this:
Not Found
The requested URL /***.html was not found on this server.

Apache/1.3.26 Server at mysite.com Port 80

[yuan189]

thanks a million guys. I'll try it out.

[Ankun]

I havent really kept up with apache lately, but does anyone know if they have released / plan to release a GUI for it? I'm starting to get sick of configuring it in a big-*** text file :\

[qball]

...I'm starting to get sick of configuring it in a big-*** text file...


So you want a GUI that loads and then updates a text file?

As Apache is very prevalent, this already exists:

http://download.com.com/3000-2165-2518433.html?tag=lst-0-3

better yet, write one yourself, offer to the world, world better place!

but, no way, easier to be lazy!

[ShawnD1]

people always condem laziness but they always forget that laziness leads to innovation.

btw using a GUI will never give you as much power as if you manualy do stuff.

[qball]

people always condem laziness but they always forget that laziness leads to innovation.


no it doesn't!

leads to laziness and speelink eerorz.

come back with:

"necessity is the mother of invention"

which t'aint true, either.

else prove?


btw using a GUI will never give you as much power as if you manualy do stuff.


without GUI, we most likely have no doing this!
without GUI, no PC (mac/winders/linux).

Good GUI interfaces can easily supplant command line input, think DIR vs. explorer. Which do you prefer to use?

[ShawnD1]

laziness does lead to innovation though. why do we use puters? we don't need them... it's because we're lazy. i don't feel like using a dictionary so i think i'll make a program to do it for me. i dont feel like walking all the time so i think i'll use a car. i hate walking to the neighbor's house to talk so i'll just call him.

all things invented are out of laziness or a want for power, mostly laziness though. when your grandparents tell you how lazy today's people are, they're actually right.

[qball]

c'mon, or you are confusing laziness with efficiency.

I actually worked in the days of 'sneaker net', doh and before. That is what we called networking before it existed. It describes that if I have stuff on one PC and want you to have on another PC, I copy to floppy and 'sneaker net' over to your PC. We weren't less lazy, it was the only way.

I actually grew up with magic box, oops TV, that had basically 7 channels, with DIALS. You had to get up and manually change and tune whatever channel you wanted to watch, and sit back down, do over and over. Remeber first cable boxes sat on top of TV, and you kinda sorta had to do the same thing. Then the jones got one of them new fangled boxes that had a 25' cable. Change channel without getting up. We weren't less lazy, it was the only way.

We use PC, not because lazy, because more efficient. If you think no need, try to do anything useful without, prove how unlazy you are. BTW, people won't think you unlazy, probably something else.

You know Thomas Edison (light bulb dude), tireless workaholic, many inventions. Would be a reach to call him lazy. Dead, yes, lazy, think not.

Wait, just one more, you know the FAX machine, still used in many places, was actually invented in the late 1800s for use with telegraph lines! Who invented it, and their laziness, will be left as exercise. Why it was never prevalent, nor really used until the 1980s? Their was no demand for moving documents that quickly. Business ran fine getting by train, horse, walking... For years to come. Need just not there.

All people are lazy to some extent, as always can do more. I would NOT define people as lazy becasue they take advantage of the efficient tools/resources, to which they have access.

People worked harder in the past, not because unlazy, because tools not so good. They had no better choice.

Think of it this way:

You have an axe.
I have a chain saw.

You cut down 4 trees per day (8hrs), working **** off.
I cut down 89 trees per day (8hrs), working **** off.

Who is the lazy one and who is the more efficient one?

Sure hope we get paid by number of trees and not hours!

laughs.

[Eric Legge]

The problem is that things get so easy that no one has the get-up-and-go to do anything, and everything degenerates, gets violent, everything gets wiped out, and the process starts all over again form a higher starting base, so that exhaustion sets in more quickly the next time around.

Eric,

http://www.legge40.freeserve.co.uk/BuyerBeware.htm

[Spardan]

Some interesting 'FAX' (groan...)

We owe development of fax to a Scottish inventor, Alexander Bain, who was granted a patent for his creation back in 1843. Bain's original concept is still the basis for modern facsimile machines...

Bain's fax transmitter was designed to scan a two-dimensional surface (Bain proposed metal type as the surface) by means of a stylus mounted on a pendulum...

(from www.worldfax.com)

The patent for the fax machine was granted on 27 May 1843, 33 years before the patent was given for the telephone.

The inventor was a Scotsman called Alexander Bain. He was apprenticed to a clockmaker in Wick where he also invented the first electric clock which was powered by an electromagnet propelling a pendulum. He patented the fax machine on his move to London. As usual, this innovation was slow to take off. The first commercial fax service was opened between Paris and Lyon in 1865 and they were called pantélégraphes. Faxes really came into their own in 1906 when they found their first major use, to transmit photos for newspapers.

He was 25 years old, as far as I can work out, when he invented the fax...

I'm 25, and I've invented nothing. Apart from some perpetual motion engines that can't ever work...

What's going on here though...?

qball knows what's going on, guys... if you're not happy with the state of play in the world, you're gonna have to change it... there are people who know this and feel it, and are doing something about it...

it seems maybe you're projecting your (possible) apathy/lethargy onto the rest of the world...

sh*t, now I sound like a hippy...
gnnnnnh!


:rolleyes: