I have:
- an extra OS X computer that I can leave on 24/7
- a static IP ADSL account
- a few TLDs to my name
- extremely low site traffic expectations ... friends and family, that sort of thing
I want:
- To be able to host my own website from my house
I don't know how to:
- Well, a lot of things. I have played around enough to have set my router to allow port forwarding on port 80 to the internal IP address of the machine I want to be the host/nameserver, and have tested that this works from another computer on my LAN (when I type in its IP address, I get the Apache test page). I don't know if this means much, but it works. Now I need to be able to tell the rest of the world that when they type in my www.[my tld].com, it should go to my router and its static IP, which will then sent the port 80 traffic along to the Mac doing the hosting.
SO, how do I do this? Do I have to register my computer as a nameserver somewhere? I know how to tell my registrar where to look, but I don't know how to create a ns.[my tld].com.
I am not proposing to be my own host for anything approaching a commercial-grade website, this thing would get a few hits a month.
Thanks for any advice, especially for pointing out the obvious things I have missed or of which I am totally unaware. As you can probably tell, I don't really know what I am doing, but I think I know enough to give it a shot.
These sites looked promising, but didn't address my nameserver questions:
www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/08/23/jaguar_server.html?page=1
osx.hyperjeff.net/Articles/Named_Serving.html (apparently crucial broken link)
- an extra OS X computer that I can leave on 24/7
- a static IP ADSL account
- a few TLDs to my name
- extremely low site traffic expectations ... friends and family, that sort of thing
I want:
- To be able to host my own website from my house
I don't know how to:
- Well, a lot of things. I have played around enough to have set my router to allow port forwarding on port 80 to the internal IP address of the machine I want to be the host/nameserver, and have tested that this works from another computer on my LAN (when I type in its IP address, I get the Apache test page). I don't know if this means much, but it works. Now I need to be able to tell the rest of the world that when they type in my www.[my tld].com, it should go to my router and its static IP, which will then sent the port 80 traffic along to the Mac doing the hosting.
SO, how do I do this? Do I have to register my computer as a nameserver somewhere? I know how to tell my registrar where to look, but I don't know how to create a ns.[my tld].com.
I am not proposing to be my own host for anything approaching a commercial-grade website, this thing would get a few hits a month.
Thanks for any advice, especially for pointing out the obvious things I have missed or of which I am totally unaware. As you can probably tell, I don't really know what I am doing, but I think I know enough to give it a shot.
These sites looked promising, but didn't address my nameserver questions:
www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/08/23/jaguar_server.html?page=1
osx.hyperjeff.net/Articles/Named_Serving.html (apparently crucial broken link)