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You want to run a web server in your Amahi server and make it visible from the web outside your home.
 
You want to run a web server in your Amahi server and make it visible from the web outside your home.
  
'''FIRST: making anything visible outside your network can open security issues, so you are doing this at your own risk. Some apps are more secure than others, but there is nothing ultimately secure. Best is to use the VPN to login back home."
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'''FIRST: making anything visible outside your network can open security issues, so you are doing this at your own risk. Some apps are more secure than others, but there is nothing ultimately secure. Best is to use the [[VPN]] to login back home."
  
 
With that out of the way, you need the following:
 
With that out of the way, you need the following:
  
 
* Forward a port to your HDA ip address, either for plain insecure http: 80, for https, 443 (advanced users can use other ports).
 
* Forward a port to your HDA ip address, either for plain insecure http: 80, for https, 443 (advanced users can use other ports).
* Chose a domain name that you own (or your free username.yourhda.com that comes with Amahi) the app will
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* Chose a domain name that you own (or your free username.yourhda.com that comes with Amahi). This is how the app will be

Revision as of 20:12, 17 June 2009

You want to run a web server in your Amahi server and make it visible from the web outside your home.

FIRST: making anything visible outside your network can open security issues, so you are doing this at your own risk. Some apps are more secure than others, but there is nothing ultimately secure. Best is to use the VPN to login back home."

With that out of the way, you need the following:

  • Forward a port to your HDA ip address, either for plain insecure http: 80, for https, 443 (advanced users can use other ports).
  • Chose a domain name that you own (or your free username.yourhda.com that comes with Amahi). This is how the app will be