I have a Macintosh G3 400 Blue and White sitting here doing absolutely nothing. I also have a DSL line which gets 768kb per second. Can I serve webpages or intranets off the G3? We have a router (Linksys) and hub in the house but its the only Mac in the house and its not connected so far. What do I need to do to serve pages off it? OR setup a VPN? I am extremely interested. We have a DYNAMIC IP from our provider, which sort of limits what we can do. Any information would be fabulous!

you'll need to find a mac webserver and then configure your router to redirect all tcp traffic on port 80 to the internal network ip of the machine you wish to become the webserver.

regards,

Simon

Originally posted by dherman76
We have a DYNAMIC IP from our provider, which sort of limits what we can do. Any information would be fabulous!

Sorry, but you can't host sites on a dynamic IP, you can use a redirection service to route a domain name to your dynamic IP, but you will need a client program for that.

My advice is to ask your ISP for a static IP.

Rgds.

Gareth C. Fowler

I remember there was a sevice that did DNS for dynamic IP based connections. It was some sort of redirect. You just setup this small program on your computer/server and it kept notifying the service of IP changes. To the outside world, they wouldn't know you had a dynamic IP. I'm not sure what the service is called or who offers it.

TZO.com is one such service. I used them for awhile. One way it works: Your domain is pointed to a simple page somewhere (maybe a schedule). Any time your server comes up with a new IP an automatic message is sent and TZO makes the change within seconds (I never timed it but it appeared to be instantaneous). When you shut down, another message is sent to change the IP back to the always-available page. Of course you don't have to have an always-available page.

Or you can change the IP at will from one machine to another (my applicaiton).

Gary

easydns.com does this for domains.

If you are planning on running your own site on the Mac, that's one thing. Others have already covered what you need. Anything else and you should read the information on my site about it. Condensed version, in 6 words of less, Bad idea, don't do it.

You don't need to use a mac webserver. You can run Linux on the box and use Apache.

Originally posted by freakysid
You don't need to use a mac webserver. You can run Linux on the box and use Apache.

I like this idea. You gain very transportable skills. At one time Apache was used by 60% of the Web's servers. (You'll never guess number 2).
Gary

A agree, Apache is one of the best web servers on the market.

Even the Labour Party in the UK use Apache on their memberships server.

Rgds.

Gareth C. Fowler

Since no one took a guess, I'll just tell. The number two web server on the Internet has been Microsoft's IIS at about 20%. Probably because it is free.
Gary