Having installed and configured vqServer and written your web pages
and servlets, you'll want others to be able to visit your web site via the
Internet. This doesn't usually require any further action on your part but
there are a few requirements:
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Your computer must be connected to the Internet when other people try to
visit your web site.
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Potential visitors need to know your computer's name (often called it's host
name or domain name) or IP address to access your web site. They type this
into the address box of their browser to visit your site.
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You can find out your computer's name and IP address from the system settings
page of the vqServer control centre. By default, vqServer tries
to figure out this information from your computer's operating system when
it starts. If your computer is connected to the Internet when you start
vqServer and the Check name and IP address at startup option
on the vqServer control centre system settings page is checked the
information displayed will usually be correct. Alternatively your Internet
service provider or network administrator should be able to provide you with
this information.
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If you have registered a domain name and want to
use this with vqServer (or any other web server) you will need to
arrange for your domain name to be mapped to your IP address by a domain
name registration organisation or ISP. This service is often called web
forwarding or domain forwarding and is often provided free of
charged by the organisation that registered your domain name, so contact
them for advice!
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Unfortunately if you use a dial-up connection to connect to the Internet
your computer's name and IP address will probably be allocated dynamically
by your Internet service provider, which means that they could be different
each time you connect to the Internet. There are two approaches to this problem:
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Ask your Internet service provider to allocate you the same computer name
and IP address each time you connect to the Internet. Not all Internet service
providers will be willing to do this and they may charge you for this service.
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Use a service such as that provided by
SelfHost which allows access to your
web site using a computer name which is always the same even though your
IP address is not always the same.
vqServer version 1.9. Copyright © 1997-2000
Steve Shering and
vqSoft. Last updated 27 March
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