PoorMan - Your Personal Web Server

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PoorMan must be running for your web server to be active. When you quit PoorMan, your web server goes down with it.

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PoorMan doesn't provide access to a computer that's behind a firewall or other protective coating.

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Locating Your IP Address This can be done in at least three ways: 1. Looking up your IP address in the Network Preferences. 2. Typing netstat in the Terminal. Netstat will then report your current IP address. 3. Using your preferred browser and visit http://www.whatismyip.org/

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You can make Zeta start PoorMan during boot up of the system, by typing the following line in to /boot/home/config/boot/ UserBootscript: /boot/beos/apps/PoorMan &

PoorMan - Your Personal Web Server

Zeta comes with a low-end web server as default. It can serve html pages, graphics, and other web-based information, and is ment for personal use. For professional use yellowTAB recommends Apache.

To run your own small site on your home computer, the first thing you have to do is to make folder for your web pages, or choose the default /boot/home/public_html. To choose a different folder then the default one, can be done in the PoorMan's preferences.

Your web site's home page must be named index.html.

PoorMan's main window
Below the menu bar, the Status line tells you if the web server is running or not. To toggle the status, use the Controls -> Run Server (Note: PoorMan starts your web server automatically).

The Hits counter tells you how many times your site has beeb visited. You can clear the hit counter through Controls -> Clear Hit Counter.

The Directory line displays the directory you chose as your web site folder.

The body of the main window is a console that displays the server status, including a list of pagest tha have been served. The console can be cleared by choosing Controls -> Clear Console Log.

PoorMan's Preferences
The Preference panel is accessed through Edit -> Preferences.

Under the Site tab you can choose the folder where you want to publish your web pages. You can also specify the file that acts as the folder's "index"file. This is the file that's sent by default when someone connects to your web site. This file is traditionally named index.html, and yellowTAB recommends you to not call this file something else.

Send Directory List...
If this option is checked, PoorMan will send a list of the contents of the web site folder if an index file isn't found. If this option is unchecked, anyone attempting to connect the site is given an error message.

The Logging tab contains options for logging information about the server to a text file.

The Advanced tab contains a slider that lets you set the maximum number of simultaneous connections you are willing to serve. Changes to this settings while the server is running, will disconnect clients from your web site.

Connecting to the PoorMan server
To visit your own web site, you have to use a browser and point it at your IP address or write http://localhost. Others can only access your web site through the IP address.

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