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Top Forums Web Development Fundamental question on web development Post 302540220 by z1dane on Wednesday 20th of July 2011 04:07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by vas28r13

For example I can technically make my crappy laptop a server, but it doesn't mean I can host a website?

Basically can somebody help me understand this process a bit more simply, I read a bit about it, but most people/info sites just throw some words around, which don't give me fundamental picture of the whole process.

Thank you in advance!

Hello vas28r13,

In regards to hosting a website on your laptop, this can be done. Each computer connected to the internet has an IP address e.g. 72.14.203.103. If you set up some web server on your laptop, such as Apache2, and "open up" your network, people can see your webpages via your computer's IP address. Please be careful when opening up ports in your network though. Basically, your laptop is now a web server. Since servers need to be turned on for long periods of time, specialised computer hardware are made into servers and kept in super cool room to keep them cool.

Of course you are probably more familiar with accessing websites by using their URL such as http://www.google.com. Read up on the concept of DNS. Basically the URL represents an IP address e.g. 72.14.203.103. You can try copying and pasting that IP address into your web browser.

Hopefully this makes a bit more sense.

Dave

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POLIPO(1)						      General Commands Manual							 POLIPO(1)

NAME

       polipo - a caching web proxy

SYNOPSIS

       polipo [ -h | -v | -x ] [ -c config ] [ var=val ]...

DESCRIPTION

       Polipo  is a caching HTTP proxy.  It listens to requests for web pages from your browser and forwards them to web servers, and forwards the
       servers' replies to your browser.  In the process, it optimises and cleans up the network traffic.

       By default, Polipo listens on TCP port 8123.  Please configure your web browser to use the proxy on localhost port 8123.

OPTIONS

       -h     Display help and exit.

       -v     Display the list of configuration variables and exit.

       -x     Purge the on-disk cache and exit.

       -c     Select an alternate configuration file.

       var=val
	      Change the value of a configuration variable.

FILES

       /etc/polipo/config
	      The default location of Polipo's configuration file.

       /etc/polipo/forbidden
	      The default location of the list of forbidden URLs.

       /var/cache/polipo/
	      The default location of the on-disk cache.

       /usr/share/polipo/www/
	      The default root of the local web space.

SIGNALS

       SIGUSR1
	      write out all in-memory objects to disk and reload the forbidden URLs file.

       SIGUSR2
	      write out all in-memory objects to disk, discard all in-memory objects, and reload the forbidden URLs file.

       SIGTERM, SIGINT, SIGHUP
	      write out all in-memory objects to disk and quit.

SECURITY

       The internal web server will follow symbolic links that point outside the local document tree.  You should run Polipo in a chroot  jail	if
       that is a problem.

       There is no reason to run Polipo as root.

FULL DOCUMENTATION

       The full manual for Polipo is maintained in a texinfo file, and is normally available through a web server internal to Polipo.  Please make
       sure that Polipo is running, and point your favourite web browser at

	      http://localhost:8123/

       Alternatively, you may type

	      $ info polipo

       at a shell prompt, or

	      C-h i m polipo RET

       in Emacs.

AUTHOR

       Polipo was written by Juliusz Chroboczek.

																	 POLIPO(1)