How do i use web sharing?

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How do i use web sharing?

i have been trying to set up a web page using the built in Apache server. I have turned on websharing.
it says "View this computer’s website at http://10.0.1.7/ or your personal website at http://10.0.1.7/~williamgates/"

but my actual IP is not that...it is 24.170.13.70 according to an ip checker. I have been reading other posts trying to firgure it out and have set up a dynamic DNS thing with dyndns.com. i created this address ( http://williamgates.is-a-geek.com/) to use. when i type that in any browser i get a drop down log in to someone's lynksys router...I am assuming it is one of my neighbor's routers.
it says: "To view this page, you need to log in to area “Linksys RT31P2” on williamgates.is-a-geek.com."

here is my internet connection
G5>airport extreme base station>vonage phone modem>moto surfboard cable modem. I am on road runner internet...

what can i do to make this work? I am not versed in using terminal or anything like that... but i am fairly computer savvy...

William

G5 Dual 1 gig Ram Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Jan 23, 2006 3:50 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 23, 2006 4:20 PM in response to William Gates

What your Mac is telling you is its IP address behind the router. What the IP checker is telling you is the IP address roadrunner is giving you on their side of the router.

Of course if you see a linksys login prompt when you try to connect the chances are you aren't connected to your Airport base station.

If you want to serve web pages through the internet then what you need to do is have the Linksys router forward ports to your local IP (10.0.1.7). If you don't know where this Linksys router is then you need to connect to your Airport Extreme base station.

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Answer 2

Jan 23, 2006 4:26 PM in response to Edwin Sneller

i am connected to the airport extreme by an ethernet cable. It is how i am getting on the internet.

i have no idea where that linksys router is. how do i tell a router to forward ports?

maybe i am misunderstanding what you mean by connect to my airport extreme base station.

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Answer 3

Jan 24, 2006 5:54 AM in response to William Gates

Is your Vonage modem made by Linksys? The RT31P2 is Linksys' router with Vonage phone service.

You could try taking the Airport Extreme and Vonage modem out of the loop and connect directly to the cable modem. Once you get it working that way start adding the other pieces of hardware.

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Answer 4

Jan 24, 2006 8:29 AM in response to Edwin Sneller

you were right!! it was just asking me to login to the admin of the phone router...i don't know why but for some reason i forgot that that was a linksys...

i read the instructions on how to make this work with the vonage router but am still a little confused.

ok so i have set up the DDNS inside the vonage router to work with my DNS account. and i set up port forwarding for port 80. and then under the ip address it wants me to ammend the 192.168.15.xxx. filling in the xxx of course is what i don't know. it says to find out the ip address of the computer you are forwarding the http requests to. the vonage help manual tells me how to do this in windows but not on a mac. i thought G5's IP was 10.0.1.7...but this is only asking for three digits.

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Answer 5

Jan 24, 2006 12:34 PM in response to William Gates

Your Airport is also a router so it is giving your Mac the 10.0.1.x address.

If you can connect your Mac directly to the Vonage it'll work better.

The xxx is a placeholder for an arbitrary number of digits, btw. That means any number up to 255.

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Answer 6

Jan 24, 2006 1:25 PM in response to Edwin Sneller

ok...but i still don't know what to put for the last three digits...i have tried some arbitrary numbers but it still doesn't seem to do anything...
i even tried changing the ip address that the Airport generates from the 10.0.1.1 setup to a 192.168.1.1 setup.

i have swapped my airport and the vonage router...but there is no change there either.

do i need to configure the airport to forward ports no that it is in between the cable modem and the linksys?

i might be missing something very important to make this work and have no idea becuase i am a rookie, so bear with me..

and thanks for all the help!

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Answer 7

Jan 24, 2006 2:59 PM in response to Edwin Sneller

ok i am a little closer now...but my wife still gets nothing when she goes to williamgates.is-a-geek.com

but i can type that in on my G5 and on another laptop that is on my home network...and it finds my little sites folder....

i have swapped the extreme and the linksys like you said...now when i turn on file sharing it says
"View this computer’s website at http://192.168.15.100/ or your personal website at http://192.168.15.100/~williamgates/"
i have port forwarding on port 80 going to that IP...

i assume that is good...considering the linksys ip is 192.168.15.1
i also have Block Anonymous Internet Requests: disabled on the linksys.

any more ideas?

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Answer 8

Jan 24, 2006 3:04 PM in response to William Gates

i meant to say my wife can't access it when she tries at work...on another network

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Answer 9

Jan 27, 2006 1:52 PM in response to William Gates

I finally got this part of the process straightened out.

I am hosting at:

musicis.boldlygoingnowhere.org/

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