Setting Up a Web Server

[icemanjc]

I recently acquired a copy of 10.5 Server and I am able to set up the web server locally by tinkering around. But I'm wondering as to how I actually get it to go online and work with my domain. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Kees Buijs]

Originally Posted by icemanjc

I recently acquired a copy of 10.5 Server and I am able to set up the web server locally by tinkering around. But I'm wondering as to how I actually get it to go online and work with my domain. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Who handles your domain DNS-settings.

You need to set the DNS entries to your LOCAL IP-number (either the ip-number of the computer connected to the modem, of the outisde ip-number of the router connected to the modem). If you have a router / firewall (advisable), than forward the required ports to the web / mailserver.

These ports normally are 80, 16080, 25, 143 and POP3 (id?).

Now your mail / webserver is available from the outside world.

Good luck, Kees

[icemanjc]

Ok, so I think I got the just of it, and if you might be able to explain more with these details. My online domain is handled by GoDaddy. I use an Airport base station to log on to my dsl modem with pppoe and share it to the rest of the network.

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Pretty much the only thing you can do is do domain "forwarding", where someone types "yourdomain.com" and it then forwards them to another domain name, such as icemanjc.kicks-ass.net (which is a dynamic DNS account that you set up at a place like dyndns.org). You can set up "masking" as well, so that the visitor always sees "yourdomain.com" in their browser's URL field, instead of "icemanjc.kicks-ass.net".

Without a static IP address (which you do not have, I'm assuming, because you're using DSL and only the upper-tier DSL plans offer static IP addresses), you cannot do "true" domain hosting, because of the entire internet DNS system that resolves names like "apple.com" to their IP addresses.

Look up "domain forwarding" on GoDaddy and go grab yourself a dynamic DNS account somewhere, and you should be good-to-go to host a single website from your server.

I have one set up similarly right now -- http://www.blowthesalon.com is simply forwarded to judas1012.kicks-ass.net, which is my dynamic DNS account with dyndns.org. I lose the benefit of being able to host more than one website (without some messy folder structure), but it works a charm.

[icemanjc]

EDIT:Yah I know it switches but hopefully if I keep everything up and running the IP won't change a lot.
here it is. http://jeffcooke.biz/