Serving WordPress from OS X?

  • Thanks to Michael Doig and Textpattern’s excellent tutorials I have managed to install WP using MAMP on my machine. My problem is now how to serve my blog to the outside world?

    I have a DSL account which means I have a dynamic IP address. I went to DynDNS, signed up for an account and account name. Problem is that whenever someone tries to access my site they don’t see anything. The connection never happens.

    I don’t know what the problem is but here is my setup:

    Mac OS X 10.3.9
    Linksys WRT54G
    Apache and MySQL servers running according to MAMP

    I think that my problem might be in the routing table for my router but I don’t know if that is the case or not. Any assist would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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  • what’s your dyndns domain name ?

    i.e. yourblog.dyndns.org

    Thread Starter ironmac

    (@ironmac)

    it’s ironmac.blogdns.com

    $ telnet ironmac.blogdns.com 80
    Trying 64.229.201.62...

    Maybe your router is blocking port 80 ?

    It’s been a while since I messed with my WRT54G, but if I remember correctly, all I had to do was assign my server a static ip address (i.e. 192.168.2.1), then route requests for port 80 to my server’s ip address.

    Thread Starter ironmac

    (@ironmac)

    That is what I thought too but my routing table settings are:

    http 80 to 8889
    apache 8888 to 8888
    mysql 8889 to 8889

    This is for Port Range Forward…from what I can tell, I’m wide open at the moment.

    Thread Starter ironmac

    (@ironmac)

    Ahhh…that might be it!!!

    “It’s been a while since I messed with my WRT54G, but if I remember correctly, all I had to do was assign my server a static ip address (i.e. 192.168.2.1), then route requests for port 80 to my server’s ip address.”

    How do u do that?

    I have no clue how you assign a static ip address in OSX.

    Do you need help in forwarding to the server ? I can walk you through that; if you can set your server up with a static ip address.

    Thread Starter ironmac

    (@ironmac)

    Does Apache server need an IP address, dynamic or otherwise? Could that be the problem? Thanks!

    oh boy, when you say “server” do you mean “host”, the physical machine ?

    The host machine has to have a static ip address. Apache has to be configured to listen/accept requests for that address/port combination.

    Thread Starter ironmac

    (@ironmac)

    I’m currently running Apache server on my machine and I thought that it was properly set up?

    Thread Starter ironmac

    (@ironmac)

    VaamYob…would you try ironmac.blogdns.com again?

    I went to a my System Preferences -> Sharing -> New and set up a service there.

    Still no luck trying to access the server.

    We can start there.

    What’s the apache machine’s ip address ?

    Thread Starter ironmac

    (@ironmac)

    Rats…I don’t know Apache’s IP addy…where can I find that?

    I meant, what’s the ip address of the machine on which you’re running apache ?

    Thread Starter ironmac

    (@ironmac)

    According to System Preferences, my machine has the IP address of 192.168.1.100.

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