Re: ad-hoc web server

From: Bob Tennent <BobT@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 28 Nov 2008 03:38:21 GMT

On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:51:48 -0800 (PST), lbrtchx@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi,
~
In order to avoid viruses and things I use knoppix to access the
internet
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Now, sometimes I need to setup an ad-hoc web server to show case some
work. I don't need a domain name to be resolve, nor do I need this
permanently
~
I thought all I had to do is:
~
1) set up my router to forward http request to port 80 to the IP
address of the internal box where I
~
2) have a service running accepting connections and serving pages on
port 80 from a USB external drive
~
But when I went to check this from a local internet caffee I was
404'ed
~
What else do I need to do?

Does Knoppix run a web server by default? Maybe you have to start it up
or configure it.

Bob T.
.

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