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From: Jim Dennis <jim@starshine.org>
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Subject: Re: Dial up (dynamic IP) Web Server - Possible?
To: ajohn@cyberforge.com (Anil John)
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:02:23 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: jim@starshine.org, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <01BB6D03.35704420@ppp25.bcpl.lib.md.us> from "Anil John" at Jul 8, 96 07:24:57 pm
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> 
> Jim Dennis[SMTP:jim@starshine.org] wrote:
> 
>    >
>    >	I think you are suffering from a fundamental misunderstanding
>    >	of how internet services in general (and the web in particular)
>    >	are supposed to work.
> 
> Jim,
> 
> Thank you for your detailed clarification of how internet services in 
> general (and the web in particular) work.
> 
>    >	Do you want to just play with a server that you can access
>    >	"from the outside"?  You can do that by bringing up your connection
>    >	and pointing your browser at the dynamic IP address.  Do you want
>    >	to play with apache add-in modules?  You can do that on the
>    >	localhost anyway.
> 
> Exactly.  This is just for my amusement.  I am new to Unix/FreeBSD and to 
> Web Servers and I figured that setting something like this up would be a 
> good way for me to learn about both.  My provider drops connections after a 
> 3 hour time frame so I would not know what dynamic IP address to point to, 
> from the outside, if I exceed that time frame.
> 
>    >	So, what are you planning on publishing on your pages?
>    >
> Nothing that is of earth shattering import :).
> 
> Anil

	No problem,

		Just point your web browser at your dynamic IP address by 
		number like so:

		http://192.168.1.1:80/path/to/your/pages

	(where 192...: is replaced by your IP address, :80 is replaced
	by the port on which you're running the daemon (optional), and 
	/path.../ is replaced with optional path and option file name
	(relative to your "document root" as set in httpd.conf).