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webmariner

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Code and Salesforce config wrangler. Homebrewer. Occasional radio tinkerer (G7NQH). Cat cuddler. EV driver. Fair-weather cyclist and biker. ADHD grappler (newly diagnosed).

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jerry , to random
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If anyone wants to know what my occular migraines look like, the video in this post is it almost exactly https://mastodon.art/@mantissa/112724382770612401

webmariner ,
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@jerry ooh I get those but very luckily no headache afterwards in most cases... think my first attempt at describing them was like a curved chevron of spray polish on a CRT television 😆

futurebird , to random
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Is there a good resource or book for learning about some of the details of how webservers work?

For example if I want an IP address on a intranet to be a webpage that people on that intranet can go to... how would I set that up from scratch. Let's say I have a machine with a static IP on the local net... (but what I really also need to understand is how a static IP is established locally, a DNS?)

Maybe the dream book or resource doesn't exist. But I ask anyway.

(it's macs if that matters)

webmariner ,
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@futurebird hey! a web server is just a program that binds to tcp port 80 and listens for requests coming in. macos used to have apache built in and you just had to switch it on, may have changed a bit tho since I last checked... but it's common for web servers to be configurable to look in a particular folder for files that match the rest of the path of the request (does that make any sense?)

webmariner ,
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@futurebird as for static IP, doesn't have to be the case if the machine acting as DHCP server on your network is set up to give your web server machine thr same IP each time it asks for one, or if you have an internal DNS server set up to resolve queries for your local hostnames (dnsmasq is a nice fit for this)

webmariner ,
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@futurebird when a machine's network interface starts up, it can either broadcast a request for an IP (optionally giving a name too) and wait for a reply from a local DHCP server, or it can be set up to use specific details manually (the static IP option). The DHCP server would tell the machine which IP address it can use, along with the IP of the DNS server to use for looking up the IPs of other hosts.

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