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mgehman · Jan 23, 2004, 02:14 PM

Ok,
Here's my problem. I have built a websever for a local church. We have a high speed cable connection. My problem is we have only one connection. If I connect the sever, the rest of the churches network can't connect and if I connect the rest of the church the web page isn't served. I am running a revision C iMac with Mac OS 10.3.2 and 512MB of ram. I have tried various solutions such as turning on internet sharing in the sharing control panel but can't seem to configure the network to see it. I have also tried, I think, all of the network sharing programs including intergate and others. I run into the same problem not matter what. Can anyone help me out here? Thanks in advance.

car1son · Jan 23, 2004, 04:23 PM

How do you "connect the rest of the church"? If that's through a router, can you connect the webseerver to the router, too? If so, you can set up the router to forward HTTP port 80 to your web server, (or put the server in a "DMZ".) (example)

mgehman · Jan 23, 2004, 06:35 PM

Originally posted by car1son:
How do you "connect the rest of the church"? If that's through a router, can you connect the webseerver to the router, too? If so, you can set up the router to forward HTTP port 80 to your web server, (or put the server in a "DMZ".) (example)

Thanks so much. That is exactly what I need to do. We even have a linksys router so your example is perfect. I will let you know if it works. Thanks again.

mgehman · Jan 23, 2004, 06:38 PM

Originally posted by car1son:
How do you "connect the rest of the church"? If that's through a router, can you connect the webseerver to the router, too? If so, you can set up the router to forward HTTP port 80 to your web server, (or put the server in a "DMZ".) (example)

Oops one more thing. I have a dynamic IP address and the mac needs to have the actual IP address from the router and report it to dyndns. Is there a way to accomplish this? Thanks again

car1son · Jan 23, 2004, 07:49 PM

DynDns supports an update protocol, and there are a couple of OS X clients out there that can determine your current public IP and update your DynDNS periodically.

DynDNS.org lists a couple here .

(I think most of these don't ask the Router, but rather just ask DynDNS itself to get the IP Address, since every time you visit a website, it gets your public IP address as part of the normal TCP/IP exchange.)

mgehman · Jan 23, 2004, 07:55 PM

Originally posted by car1son:
DynDns supports an update protocol, and there are a couple of OS X clients out there that can determine your current public IP and update your DynDNS periodically.

DynDNS.org lists a couple here .

(I think most of these don't ask the Router, but rather just ask DynDNS itself to get the IP Address, since every time you visit a website, it gets your public IP address as part of the normal TCP/IP exchange.)

Yup, you're right. I download the java client and it works great. I'll have to set it up on the server tomorrow. Thanks again.

stevesnj · Jan 25, 2004, 07:05 PM

NEVER NEVER NEVER DMZ A WEB SERVER!!! your asking for trouble. Always port foward a web server never DMZ one.

mgehman · Jan 25, 2004, 07:49 PM

Originally posted by stevesnj:
NEVER NEVER NEVER DMZ A WEB SERVER!!! your asking for trouble. Always port foward a web server never DMZ one.

Yeah, I didn't think that was a good idea so I went with the port forewarding and made sure the firewall was on. You can check out the fruit of my labor at http://www.athenspresbyterian.org