When you go to whatismyip.com it will give you the IP of your ADSL connection, not your computers. You will get the same address for both your laptop and your mini if you try that. To see a computer's local ip you will have to look in your Control Panel, or type ifconfig in a command line terminal (the command is ifconfig on Mac/Linux and ipconfig in Windows). Then you will have the local network address for your computer. Sorry if I'm just telling you stuff you already know, but I wanted to make sure.

You will need to configure the firewall on your router to allow http access from outside connections. Use NAT (network address translation) to put HTTP traffic (port 80) through to the local address of your mac mini. You should set it up so that the mini is always assigned the same IP address, it should be under DHCP settings on your router configuration. Once you configure the firewall properly you may be able to use the 77.250.13.83 address to reach your mini's website even from within your network, but I can't remember the exact router option that is needed to do that kind of thing. I think it may just be called loopback.

I can't remember what the default firewall options were on my own mac (I'm now running Ubuntu on it anyway), but you should also try to access the mini from your laptop while connected to the same network to make sure that the mini is allowing HTTP connections through its own firewall. There are options to allow different kinds of networking through the Mac's firewall in the Control Panel, you should have a look at them.

In reply to Re^3: The meaning of life, Perl and SML by blues
in thread The meaning of life, Perl and SML by noknok

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