I'm running OS X 10.4.11 Whatever that is...

If I type in localhosts or the 192.168... address in my browser I see:If you can see this, it means that the installation of the Apache web server software on this system was successful. You may now add content to this directory and replace this page.

So I think I am sharing, I just don't know what I am sharing.

OK, so I am close. There are two issues right now.

1) There isn't, or I can't find, the "Sites" folder in my Home folder.

2) I can't use the external address to access the Mac. I can't use the Mac's internal (192.168...) address in the browser from my PC and access it either.

Thanks Kurt, I was able to access the default Apache page from my PC after I turned the firewall off on the PC.

The funny thing is, there isn't a "WebServer" directory in the Library directory either.

I'd really like to open a dos prompt about now... :)

Well, why didn't you say that to begin with???

You did??? Ahhh... so you did... :D


So I've turned the sharing on, and have found where to put things. Now I need to figure out where to set things to I can been seen from the outside world.
I have my internal address that's 192.168... and I have my external address that's 24.179... Do I need to do something on my router so that traffic coming in to 24.179... gets routed to 192.168...?

No can do. the 192.168... addresses are 'local' so your 192.168.1.65 can't be seen by me.

Sending PM

He won"t hit that.

It's a class A address and the default for networks.

Port 80 needs to be open on his router or the box needs to be in the DMZ. (DMZ, takes the box out from behind the firewall) or port forward at the router.

Port forwarding is simple, pick port 80 and fill in the IP address of the Mac. Does exactly what it sounds like, "take this request and send it over there"

NG

No go for me either.

They have the same address because the "reported" address is your router, not your computers.

Your computers are on a network behind the router and only your router knows about them.

Phred, who is your service provider? Have you checked to make sure they don't block port 80? A lot of them do.

He said "get his server up"

It's charter, and I haven't checked with them.

charter blocks.

you can still get around it picking an open port.

let's say 8080 instead of 80.

you can force the port used by specifying in the url

the url that you give people would be http://localhost:8080/

on you router forward traffic coming into port 8080 to port 80 at the macs ip address.

make sense?

sorry, drinking some vino and had a beevis moment.

no offense intended. just me gettin a little loopy.

I thought it was funny :D

So I went to my router and said to forward port range 8080 - 8080 to my local address of the Mac for both UDP and TCP. If I use 192.168.1.101 I get the Apache default page, but if i use http://24.179.246.142:8080/ it fails to load.

Kurt,

Just port scanned you.

Port 80 is closed on your router or your ISP blocks it.

Sorry about that... :D

I'm going to bed... Thanks Kurt and stomachmonkey.