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Hey Guys,

 I want to begin using my computer as a Web Server, but have run into a slight difficulty. See, in order to free up a port for the monkey server, I need to know what the network IP address(192.168.1.xxx) is for my DamnSmall computer.

 Thanks for any help, you guys are great.

Also,
Can I put apache on DSL? I couldn't find it in MyDSL

Thanks

totalshredder,

What is your IP?
Well, that's easy!
Open the xterminal in the upper left hand corner of your desktop. (if you have no icons, then right click and go to shells, then pick one)
After the terminal window opens typ this:

ifconfig

You'll get some results back. If you only have one network interface card, i.e.: ethernet card, then the ip you are looking for is displayed as   eth0

If you have wireless, it's displayed as  wlan0

Local machine (the machine you are using) has an "internal" IP of sorts, which is  lo, sometimes referred to as 'loopback'

However, if you are behind a firewall/router that is performing NAT (network address translation), and you are trying to allow incoming traffic to the IP of your DSL box on port 80 (or whatever port), you will also need to know the IP address your firewall/router is translating your 192.168.1.xxx to, which is your 'outside' IP or NAT'ed IP.

To find out what your "outside" IP address is, go to   www.whatismyip.com  
That page will tell you what it see's your IP address as. You will enter that IP address in a browser (or whatever) when you are outside of your home environment (or where ever you LAN (local area network) is).

NOTE:
To test your new webpage, if you are building one, you can enter 127.0.0.1 as the IP address to test locally (on your machine) to see if Monkey or Apache is working. That should be the IP displayed as  lo  when you do  ifconfig

Hope that helps.

Thanks, that's exactly what I needed to know!!!

Can I get apache on DSL though?

Luke

XAMPP download, extract, run.
every thing you want and more.

henk,

what the heck does that page say?

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original here.