Comments on: ISP-In-A-Box: Hosting Multiple Web Sites And Domains On Your Mac

By: Dayo Akanji

Dayo Akanji — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 15:10:16 +0000

Answer to my question. I just found out that DynDNS offers a free "WEBHOP" service that can redirect to a specific port. Throws up a popup on first entry nut there’s no free lunch! Good enough for me….At least for a start.

By: Dayo Akanji

Dayo Akanji — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 15:04:34 +0000

Hello.

I have been following the steps in this absorbing series and have an observation and question at this stage.

OBSERVATION: The ISP in a Box can be followed on Tiger. While you mention several times that Panther should be used (I know it was mainly written pre Tiger) what I have done is open the Tiger Vittles upgrade page as well and applied the upgrades on the fly. It works.

QUESTION. I will like to have another site in addition to the alpha stage one I now have but this section does not mention how this might work using something like DynDNS and just concentrates on Omnis. Is it the case that these type of services do not work? Although they give an extra "dot" in the name, I really like the fact that the update clients can automatically reset the IP address. Is there a way to use these services??

Thanks

By: Daniel Monroe

Daniel Monroe — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:31:09 +0000

Thank you so much for such an absorbing, understanding tutorial, but IT DID NOT WORK!!! I went through this a dozen times now, and now my prior website that was in the default /Documents folder does not load. Here is what I did:
– I followed through the process to host multiple domains as above. (Keep in mind, I currently have [had] one in the default documents folder in the WebServer directory) so I created the new directory via terminal using my "vacouncil" in replacement of "mysite" for all instances. After restarting apache, I exited out of all terminal commands.
– next, I added the port 81 to my firewall settings as you had illustrated.
– next, I went into my router (netgear) and after refreshing everything, I added the range of ports from 80 to 81 and applied that.

– and now, nothing loads. The new domain (www.vacouncil.org) and my existing domain (www.monroe-design.com) come up with instant "can’t connect to server" msgs. By now, I have tried restarting my Apache, my router (and unplugged), and my entire system to no avail.

– I have registered previously my domains through register.com, whom I have been happy with and thought I may need to assign port #’s there, but there system won’t let me add " :80 " or " :81″ to the end of my IP. SO NOW that leads me to believe it is something with my router that I am looking past, or with the code that I copied above to enter into Terminal… ANY HELP WOULD BE SO GREATLY APPRECIATED… This tutorial was extremely helpful, but the long arm of Murphy’s law apparently got the best of me. (dan@monroe-design.com)

[WM: Sorry you had a problem. Unfortunately, register.com doesn’t support mod-proxy DNS entries, i.e. those with a port address as well as an IP address. So your domain is being routed to port 80 on your Mac. If you transfer your domain to Omnis.com, all should be well.]