I made a simple .html file with a .css and I want to share it with some people without having to send the files and explaining how to open them etc. so I was wondering: Is it possible to use my IP and a port so that when they put it in their browser, they get the webpage as if they normally loaded a website? Like this:
xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9000 in their url bar and it would be like they opened my .html file with their browser normally.
Is that possible? If yes: can someone explain how?
For a permanent solution I would look into a hosting provider instead of setting up self hosting. It will enable you to easily deploy out new versions hassle free.
If you decide to go with your own hosting you have to manage firewall and network configurations on your own which is too involved to explain in this answer.
I don't believe this is possible, unless you set your pc to act as a server, but that's way more work than sending the files around and explaining how to open them unfortunately.
Check around for some cheap web hosting as a long-term solution, i pay 40 a year for hosting and for how many sites and projects I have on it, it's worth it :)
You should install a web server, configure it and your proxy. Then give them your IP adress.
They will be able to access it via their browser.
Easier to give them a zipped folder by mail.
I found this recently and has been a good tool for collaborating with team members, http://fenixwebserver.com/. They also do the proxy stuff allowing developers to share the webpages easily.
Related
I believe wordpress has download limits (it'd probably crash your site if someone spammed download). A website like: multiloginapp provides you with the download, where as a website like winautomation provides you the download link through an e-mail.
How do I go about implementing something like that for an application I have created? The only solution that I know of would be to use an external provider and link that with a password
Or to perhaps do what Winautomation do and when you sign up to download the application, it send you an email where you click the link and it pings it to you
Any ideas as I'm keen to get my application out there.
UPDATED
So broken down:
1) Provide the link to download. [WordPress Download Manager]
2) OPTIONAL Use Pretty Links Wordpress. This ensures that you can make the link specific to your site
3) Use a hosting provider like sabercat. Honestly this is the issue here. I want to have a host provider ping me it. I can't use my own host yet but I feel like this is the last issue to address. Two problems with this: Security is lacking unless you can encrypt or provide a password. The other is credibility. Would you buy from a legitimate business that users SABERCAT to give you their application? Maybe.. but you get my point.
For hosting a file in WordPress site first of all you might need unlimited bandthwidth or a dedicated server so instead it's wise to use a free file hosting services
I'm looking for some advice regarding a webservice.
I currently have 3 websites that do the same thing, just with a different branding. Each of the website integrates with a third party site via a webservice and there's quite a lot of config goes into each site.
All 3 sites are on the same server, each has it's own IP and runs under HTTPS.
I would like to move functionality to a central website and access it from my other websites via my own webservice. My initial thoughts are to create a new website using the default webserver as it's only internal to the sites, but it's the first time I've done something like this so I'm not entirely clear.
I've a few questions that I still haven't found the answer to, so would appreciate a nudge in the right direction.
Can this be done via the default website?
Do I need a separate IP from the ones currently allocated to my 3 sites?
Do I need another domain name or will localhost suffice?
Is there a better way?
Thanks in advance.
Your question gives a lot to think about. However, the quick answer is "yes". If you make a web service for yourself, you can host it on localhost, on the same server as your three web sites. You don't need any web address or IP address. Hard to believe that it is actually that simple, but for a locally hosted web service, it is.
After reading your entire question, it seems like your challenges will eventually be logical ones (once you run the traffic of three sites, into one WS). I'm sure you already know that.
I’ve scoured the Internet via Google and could not find if it is possible to host ASP .Net and Ruby on Rails on the same server!
Do you know if it is possible?
If not, would I be able to do this?
– www.abc.com – redirects to Page A (hosted on Ruby on Rails server)
– jobs.abc.com OR www.abc.com/jobs - redirects user to Page B (hosted on ASP .Net server)
So from the user point of view, they’re both under the same domain name and appear seamless? So perhaps jobs.abc.com points to a different IP address.
Has anyone done this before?
Thank you all.
Yes, the same physical computer can host RoR and ASP.NET at the same time.
To merge two apps on separate platforms and make them appear as one seamless site is a little more challenging. One not very nice option is to use IFRAMEs to render one site (B) inside another's (A) pages, allowing the top-level URL to still show A's domain, etc.
It sounds like finding out more about the issue you are trying to solve would be a good idea, as going down this road is likely to create a mess in the future, and should be avoided if at all possible.
You can also use sub-domains like you suggested, so that the domain names are similar but not exactly the same.
You will also need to consider how to share authentication, etc., across sites.
You'll not find a host that supports both I guess.
I'm thinking of something similar. Seems a Windows VPS hosting is the way to go, and then I can install Ruby to IIS as FastCGI filter, or even have another server side by side but I don't expect this to work flawlessly when both servers will need to listen to port 80 (doable I guess, but probably troubling).
BTW, for the jobs.abc.com scenario you don't need the two apps on the same server. You can have them on two servers and manage the difference via DNS.
I have a flex app that is hosted on my server. It runs off an amfphp + mysql stack.
I have had inquiries from potential clients who want to "white label" the product. Part of this means that they would want it to appear that the app is running off their server. So their clients would login at www.theirsite.com instead of www.mysite.com.
I obviously dont want to give them the actual app...but are there ways of letting their server redirect to mine without the user actually knowing?
I don't have extensive experience with Flex, but I've worked a lot with Flash. Several ideas come to mind:
Create a wrapper: a SWF that loads your app. With the proper security settings, it should work. Check out this article on crossdomain.xml and the specs for Security.allowDomain()
You could simply embed the SWF from your site, similar to a YouTube video
If that is not satisfactory and your hosting services allow it, you can create a DNS A record or a DNS C record for a subdomain in there site, but you would support all the traffic that page has.
Probably the easiest way would be for them to alter their DNS record to make a CNAME entry (alias) that is a subdomain of theirsite.com:
yourapp.theirsite.com => www.mysite.com
Am I becoming a lazy researcher? If I don't find good answers via Google, instead of continuing to try various research methodologies, here I am at SO again...
I want to host a few websites on IIS7 on Windows Server 2008. I am familiar with how to setup/configure the website. What I would like to do is setup a ftp site for each website allowing a specific user to manage the files for that site. I do not understand enough of how to administer the new FTP server and do not know the best practices for how to setup the security for the directory/website/ftpsite.
Does anyone have experience in this area or know of any good online resources?
Thank you.
You have to use the old IIS6 interface to setup FTP websites. Then you set permissions on directories as you would for regular file system access. I don't really like this very much, but it does the job.