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Re: Viewing local web server

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Salut Isaac

In article <isw-2E3C29.23110715032016@news-roam.garlic.com>,
 isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:

> I run a web server on my Mac; just the Apache setup that came with it, 
> with no bells or whistles. Basically it serves up a list of recipes that 
> I like to share with relatives and a few friends.
> 
> I poked a hole through the modem's firewall so requests to my exposed IP 
> are routed to my Mac.
> 
> When I set the server up, I was able to view it from that same Mac, by 
> going out through the DSL modem and returning again, simply by pointing 
> my browser at the DSL modem's exposed IP.
> 
> But then the AT&T-provided DSL modem failed, and the replacement (a 
> "new" and different model) will not do the "out and in again" trick -- 
> no machine on my local network can view the server using the exposed IP, 
> although anybody outside can get to it just fine.
> 
> So I'm wondering if there's some sort of "reflector" that I can use to 
> check the server, just to make sure what the pages look like after I 
> make changes? I know I could look at it locally, but that's not what I 
> want to do.

use the LAN IP of the server to access it from computers within the 
local network. Use 127.0.0.1 to view the pages on the serving Mac itself.

Cheers
Andreas

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