Monkey Server

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Monkey Server
started by: totalshredder

Posted by totalshredder on Jan. 11 2005,00:32

Hey Guys,

I want to begin using my computer as a Web Server, but have run into a slight difficulty. See, in order to free up a port for the monkey server, I need to know what the network IP address(192.168.1.xxx) is for my DamnSmall computer.

Thanks for any help, you guys are great.

Also,
Can I put apache on DSL? I couldn't find it in MyDSL

Thanks

Posted by green on Jan. 11 2005,02:25

totalshredder,

What is your IP?
Well, that's easy!
Open the xterminal in the upper left hand corner of your desktop. (if you have no icons, then right click and go to shells, then pick one)
After the terminal window opens typ this:

ifconfig

You'll get some results back. If you only have one network interface card, i.e.: ethernet card, then the ip you are looking for is displayed as eth0

If you have wireless, it's displayed as wlan0

Local machine (the machine you are using) has an "internal" IP of sorts, which is lo, sometimes referred to as 'loopback'

However, if you are behind a firewall/router that is performing NAT (network address translation), and you are trying to allow incoming traffic to the IP of your DSL box on port 80 (or whatever port), you will also need to know the IP address your firewall/router is translating your 192.168.1.xxx to, which is your 'outside' IP or NAT'ed IP.

To find out what your "outside" IP address is, go to www.whatismyip.com
That page will tell you what it see's your IP address as. You will enter that IP address in a browser (or whatever) when you are outside of your home environment (or where ever you LAN (local area network) is).

NOTE:
To test your new webpage, if you are building one, you can enter 127.0.0.1 as the IP address to test locally (on your machine) to see if Monkey or Apache is working. That should be the IP displayed as lo when you do ifconfig

Hope that helps.

Posted by totalshredder on Jan. 11 2005,14:03

Thanks, that's exactly what I needed to know!!!

Can I get apache on DSL though?

Luke

Posted by henk1955 on Jan. 11 2005,14:15

< XAMPP > download, extract, run.
every thing you want and more.

Posted by green on Jan. 12 2005,01:58

henk,

what the heck does that page say?

Posted by henk1955 on Jan. 12 2005,08:45

at the top right corner of the page you see a "union jack"

Posted by green on Jan. 13 2005,01:26

uh, ..... i didn't see that. thanks.

Posted by totalshredder on Jan. 13 2005,02:49

henk,

Thanks so much for that! That place is exactly what I needed, for all my computers! Wonderful.

Luke

Posted by Garry on April 24 2005,05:23

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html

try it with the 'en'

Thanks