Web sharing -- deciphering my address

Hi all, I've got a question about web sharing..
All the information I'm seeing about web sharing says your address will be http://ipaddress/~username/
I've set up web sharing through my sys prefs and it says my address is
http://jsmith-01.mycompany.net/~username/
I'm wondering where the 'jsmith-01' (just an example) comes from. Is it coming from my computer or from my companies network? How would I change it?
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

That should come from the sharing preference pane - and should end in .local

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[Sat Dec 05 22:37:25 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.13 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.13 OpenSSL/0.9.8k DAV/2 PHP/5.3.0 configured -- resuming normal operations

I too am getting the same problem. Web Sharing WAS fine now I get the following message:
NOTE ~myusername has been substituted to avoid confusion.
Error!
Could not connect to remote server
You tried to access the address http://192.168.1.253/~myusername/, which is currently unavailable. Please make sure that the Web address (URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.
Using Terminal I get:
/usr/sbin/apachectl configtest
Syntax OK
ls -l /usr/sbin/apachectl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3640 24 sep 2007 /usr/sbin/apachectl
which apachectl
/usr/sbin/apachectl
-bash: /private/etc/apache2/users/myusername.conf: Permission denied
NOTE (this test is being run from user a/c quentin
NOTE (this test seems to be picking up a website in "Sites" directory called Q-website_NEW this website is currently running live on the www)
tail /var/log/apache2/error_log
[Mon Dec 14 22:05:10 2009] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
mod_bonjour: Skipping user 'myusername' - cannot read index file '/Users/myusername/Sites/index.html'.
[Mon Dec 14 22:05:10 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Dec 14 22:05:10 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Dec 14 22:05:10 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.13 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.13 OpenSSL/0.9.7l DAV/2 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Dec 14 22:05:42 2009] [error] [client 192.168.1.253] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documents/favicon.ico, referer: http://192.168.1.253/~myusername/
[Mon Dec 14 22:07:13 2009] [error] [client 192.168.1.253] File does not exist: /Users/myusername/Sites/Q-websiteNEW/siteassets/Bgnd.png, referer: http://192.168.1.253/~myusername/Q-website_NEW/index.htm
[Mon Dec 14 22:07:33 2009] [error] [client 192.168.1.253] File does not exist: /Users/myusername/Sites/Q-websiteNEW/siteassets/Bgnd.png, referer: http://192.168.1.253/~myusername/Q-websiteNEW/indexes.htm
[Mon Dec 14 22:07:43 2009] [error] [client 192.168.1.253] File does not exist: /Users/myusername/Sites/Q-websiteNEW/siteassets/Bgnd.png, referer: http://192.168.1.253/~myusername/Q-websiteNEW/indexfi.htm
[Mon Dec 14 22:10:26 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
quentin:~ myusername$
quentin:~ myusername$ tail -f /var/log/apache2/error_log
[Mon Dec 14 22:05:10 2009] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
mod_bonjour: Skipping user 'myusername' - cannot read index file '/Users/myusername/Sites/index.html'.
[Mon Dec 14 22:05:10 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Mon Dec 14 22:05:10 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Mon Dec 14 22:05:10 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.13 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.13 OpenSSL/0.9.7l DAV/2 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Dec 14 22:05:42 2009] [error] [client 192.168.1.253] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documents/favicon.ico, referer: http://192.168.1.253/~myusername/
[Mon Dec 14 22:07:13 2009] [error] [client 192.168.1.253] File does not exist: /Users/myusername/Sites/Q-websiteNEW/siteassets/Bgnd.png, referer: http://192.168.1.253/~myusername/Q-website_NEW/index.htm
[Mon Dec 14 22:07:33 2009] [error] [client 192.168.1.253] File does not exist: /Users/myusername/Sites/Q-websiteNEW/siteassets/Bgnd.png, referer: http://192.168.1.253/~myusername/Q-websiteNEW/indexes.htm
[Mon Dec 14 22:07:43 2009] [error] [client 192.168.1.253] File does not exist: /Users/myusername/Sites/Q-websiteNEW/siteassets/Bgnd.png, referer: http://192.168.1.253/~myusername/Q-websiteNEW/indexfi.htm
[Mon Dec 14 22:10:26 2009] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
I have tried re-editing the myusername.conf file thus:
<Directory "/Users/myusername/Sites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
and have replaced it in the directory
/etc/apache2/users/
then I ran the command
sudo chown root:wheel /etc/apache2/users/shortname.conf
with this result
quentin:~ myusername$ sudo chown root:wheel /etc/apache2/users/shortname.conf
Password:
chown: /etc/apache2/users/shortname.conf: No such file or directory
quentin:~ myusername$
NOTE please remember "myusername" has been substituted to avoid confusion.
I am still unable to access my web sharing and am still getting the error message quoted at the start of this post.
I would greatly appreciate any advice as I am currently trying to implement php and MySQL on this machine.

Web Sharing, TimeMachine, and CFURL

So I've been using web sharing under 10.5 for months. Yesterday, I decided to upgrade my harddrive. After making sure everything was saved under TimeMachine, I swapped in the new hard drive, did a system restore, went to sleep, and woke up to my new computer with 200gb of free space! Flawless.
Except: now WebSharing doesn't work. I try to access Localhost, 127.0.0.1, or my computer's IP addy and Safari looks at me as if I had gone mad: "Safari can’t find the server." it says. Well, why not?
I tried investigating via command line and got this error:
launchctl: CFURLWriteDataAndPropertiesToResource(/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache. httpd.plist) failed: -10
Investigating the file, it looks ok. Thinking it might be a permissions issue, I allowed more write access, but then it said "Dubious permissions on file (skipping)." Well ****. So now I am stumped. Do you have any ideas?
-Brett

bheliker wrote:
Yes, using localhost, 127.0.0.1 and my IP address all result in the same issue.
Attempting to start apache it throws the error "already running" but stopping and starting or restarting has no effect...
thanks for the help,
brett
If you turn off WebSharing, do you still have any httpd events showing up in the Application Monitor?
It sounds like one of more of the server files are corrupt or misplaced.
Did you ever make any changes to any of the server files?

Web Sharing Question

Hi everyone!
I activated Web Sharing in the Sharing preference pane and have added some files to the 'Sites' folder in my user directory.
The content shows up when I enter the address in Safari.
So does this mean anyone I provide the address to will be able to view the content in my sites folder or is it restricted to just people in my local network.
Cause I have some videos I made that I would like to share with people. And sticking them in the sites directory just seems so much better than uploading them to any YouTube-esque site where the quality in video is considerably degraded not to mention the time it takes for me to upload the video to those sites.
Also, I'd love to take this approach for hosting a website without having to pay for hosting and a domain name (I'm a poor college student).
Thanks for any and all insight!
- Jeff

Jeff,
ALRIGHT ALREADY!!!! Ha, couldn't resist that, given the drama thus far :-P
When you turn Web Sharing on, the Apache web server is started, and port 80 (the standard http port) is opened. So yes, anyone across the internet can view whatever is in your "Sites" folder.
However, you first have to meet a few prerequisites in order for everything to work correctly. Most important is dealing with any router you may be behind. Are you (behind one)? If so, http requests to port 80 must be forwarded by your router to your Mac. Check your router's documentation for instructions on accomplishing this. Another "quick and dirty" way to accomplish the same thing is to place your Mac in the router's "DMZ," but I strongly recommend that you only do this for specific transfers, and only for as long as it takes to make the transfers.
Once your port 80 is "out in the open," others can enter your public IP address, followed by a backslash, then a tilde and your short name (http://xx.xxx.xxx.xxx/~jeff, if that's your short name).
You'll have at least as much trouble hosting a website as you do uploading to YouTube, because both rely on the same internet connection. And of course, if you are behind your school's router, there's almost no way anything like this will happen. You might be able to share across your network, but not across the internet.
If you really want to have a nice website, or space to share selected files, why not try a .Mac account? For only $100 a year, you get way more than enough space to host a substantial website, complete with pictures and video, and the website can be built using iWeb. .Mac and iWeb (and iPhoto, and iMovie, etc.) work seamlessly together. The bandwidth might not be the greatest in the world, but it is certainly much better than anything you can do from the typical wireless network with your own computer.
Scott

Web Sharing set up question

First... I thank you in advance for your time and efforts on this issue that I have.
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I have 4 macs each hooked up to separate TVs and running Plex for content serving and so far have been able to adequately manage the lot of them. I can remote Admin from my mac and I've done a good job with setting permissions and access as far as file/printer sharing goes.
But I haven't been able to get the web Sharing features working.
It seems easy enough... turn on the web sharing in preferences and point the browser to the correct IP address.
When I do that I am able to reach the web page located in the top webserver/documents folder... or the ones in the users site folder from any of the locally networked machines from the IP addys that can be found in the websharing preference pane.
But from off site... over the net... no one can get access at all... "cannot locate server" ... and "server time out" messages appear.
These are all new Mac Minis and a new Mac Book running Snow Leopard and they seem to network rather well for me locally so I'm thinking my router is blocking????
I have the firewall turned off and it reads that all incoming connections are allowed.
What am I not setting/looking at properly? what need I do to allow someone to get access to my websharing folder and view a web page or download a file? Or to get access to the htdocs folder in MAMP/
I tried installing MAMP and that all seems to be up and running but I have the same issue... local machines can access the files but off site machines can not. grrrr .... (i love macs)

For anyone else who has issues with setting up web sharing.
I found my solusion first by getting an Airport extreme base station and then by following the instructions posted by Thomas and I'll paste part of it here for you but there is a link you'll need to follow for the main instructions.
Thomas says the following:
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You can't just access machines on your home network from the outside world. Your typical home internet connection has one single dynamic IP address assigned to it. Depending on your network setup, that IP address might be your wireless router, wired router or cable/DSL modem, and that device takes responsibility for routing traffic to machines on the local network. On the local network, machines will have IP addresses like 10.0.1.1 (if you're using an Apple AirPort base station), which are completely meaningless to the outside world.
I posted some instructions for how to get access to a specific machine on my home network from outside here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9436505&#9436505
Of course, as I mention on that thread, if you have different hardware, this method may not work for you. Also note that you should not expect to host a website this way. Web access for your own use is one thing, but your internet service provider will shut you down if you try to host a public web site over your home network connection.
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And one thing that I did learn unfortunately is that NO... you can't route the web sharing feature to more than one machine at a time. Kinda messes things up. At least for my mac mini it did... had to delete my user account and replace it to get back to normal after trying to set up web sharing on two machines.
Also.. the settings changed both in the System prefs as well as for the airport are easy enough to reverse and set back your previous settings should you want to.

Web Sharing Not Working on External Computers

OK, here's my problem. I cannot view my websites on external computers (e.g. work computer, neighbor's computer, etc.) that I'm hosting on my Mac Mini.
I'm running a new Mac Mini with OS X Lion, with the latest update. I have Web Sharing turned on. I have my firewall on, but the options show that I'm allowing web sharing.
When I visit my site on my local computer, it works fine. I type my domain name in my browser, and it finds my website.
But when I'm on an external computer anywhere else I get this message:
Safari can’t connect to the server.
Safari can’t open the page “http://192.168.1.100/~vgadisciple/clan_vga/index.html” because Safari can’t connect to the server “192.168.1.100”.
I have tried various browsers. I have turned off my firewall. I have cleared the cache in the various browsers. I have made sure Apache is running via my Terminal. I have tried everything I can think off.
Why can't I view my website from any other computer besides my local machine? Please help. I'm tired of paying $200 a year to a company to host my website when I can do it myself.
Any help resolving this issue will be greatly appreciated.

OK, no one was able to help me. I realized what I was doing wrong.... and I should have realized it...
192.168.x.xxx IP Addresses are always local IP addresses, and computers on the WAN cannot acccess that via the hypertext transfer protocol. I should have known this, but Apple's web sharing was pretty clear that my 192.168 IP address would work, and I thought behind the scenes it would work out the details. But since OS X Lion is more like Windows ME than previous OS X versions, I shouldn't have assumed that.
To make it work, I subsititued my LAN IP address of 192.168.1.100 with the IP address from my ISP.
Then after that I logged into my router and I used port forwarding, named the port HTML and using port 80, via TCP, and forwarded that to my local 192.168.1.100 IP address. And now it works fine.
So for example, my URL, instead of being http://192.168.1.100/~vgadisciple/clan_vga/index.html, I substituted 192.168.x.xxx with my IP address given to me by my ISP, which is 98.203.xxx.xx.
Works like a charm.

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