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Revision as of 18:37, 18 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, to host your own web site 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). Some routers call this or require a "virtual server"
- Chose a domain name that you own (or your free username.yourhda.com that comes with Amahi). This is how the app will be accessed outside
- Chose the app you want to make accessible outside, let's say, yourweabppname
What you need to do (as root) is edit the config file for the app:
cd /etc/httpd/conf.d nano 10*-yourweabppname.conf
Then add:
ServerAlias username.yourhda.com
You can add more server aliases if you want to access the app under those names. Then save the file, quit the editor (nano in this case) and restart the server:
service httpd reload
FAQs
- Q: Do i need to do anything for
username.yourhda.com
to work?
No. That comes free and automatically set up with your Amahi HDA
- Q: What if i want to do it for a .html or .php file?
You can do this by creating a Webapp of your own. In the apps tab, select Webapps and create a new one. What you do is, create a web app, and put the files into the root directory of the webap, something like this directory:
/var/hda/web-apps/yourwebappname/html
this directory belongs to apache. you will have to change the ownership to your user (recommended) or otherwise add things as root.
- Q: How do I change the ownership?
You can do this by going to the command screen:
su - {password} chown {user} /var/hda/web-apps/