Setting up Uniform Server

[jo37]

Apologies if I'm repeating previous questions but I'm getting very confused!

I've installed uniform server and would like to use it to run Joomla. I can get http://localhost/apanel/ and I have a local drive W but that seems to be about it - when I download files into the disk w. folder and try to look at them via http://localhost/newfilename - I get 404 not found for this URL.

 

Don't know if this makes a difference but I am behind Zonealarm. (I've allowed Port 80) and am also using an ADSL router. I see in a thread of June 24th you've advised someone to do a port forward on port 80. Should I be doing this as well? As part of port-forward my router asks for the fixed IP address of the computer device that data is being passed to. What do I put in there?

 

(Could I check whether it's the server or the files I'm trying to put in there by copying a webpage into Disk W folder? If so, what's the URL I should use? Sorry if this is all a bit confused - it probably doesn't look like it but I'm a lot more clued-up than I was about servers etc. - Mainly thanks to the patient people like yourselves who answer these sort of queries!)

[MrX]

Firstly, the files should be placed in W:\www, everything there will be accessible via http://localhost/

 

What're you using Uniform Server for? Are you trying to host a site, testing web software or making a local installation of another site you're administrating? Unless you're trying to host a site, you shouldn't allow outside access by doing a port forward.

 

I'm not good with routers (as I don't own one myself), but I think it probably wants the internal IP of your PC. Here's how to find out what that is, for Win 9x / ME, go to Run, type "winipcfg" and hit enter, for NT / 2k / XP / 2k3, open a Command Prompt and type "ipconfig". Paste the output here or in a private message

 

I hate to say this but if you're using ZoneAlarm, there are a few problems that might haunt you, the Admin Panel HTTP_REFERER problem and the pskill.exe problem are two I can think of right now. Also, if you're going to allow outside access to your site, you should fix the mod_dav security flaw.

[MrX]

I've received your private message, I guess we really need to include a better README.txt with Uniform Server (and put it in a place where people are more likely to see it) so people who have just started using HTTPds (like Apache) will know how to use it properly

 

So, have you solved your problem with Joomla and do you have any suggestions on what we should include in the README.txt?

[olajideolaolorun]

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