Complete newbie to home web server php stuff

[jboy161]

I came accross a tutorial on the net which showed how to get an Apache web server with PHP running on a home computer, and seemed to make it look relitively easy. Infact I was surprised at how easy it was, as i'd always put off using my own server especially for testing, thinking it would be far to difficult to set up. Anyway, my router, as far as i can make out wont let me connect to my own website due to the fact that i'm trying to access the same ip address as what the router is using to connect to the internet, it sees this as a problem and diverts me to the routers web based config pages. So, firstly I cannot actually tell whether the outside world is actually able to access the web server. Could someone tell me if 8millane.homeip.net shows up with anything? Or do you get a window asking you to login to the routers config interface?

I can of couse access the site by going to localhost. (Heres where the PHP part comes into this post - lol). I've got a PHP based site on the web server which when accessed displays correctly, however when I click a link, leading to for example: index.php?p=sub i remain on the same page. It seems that the string 'p' and it's value 'sub' isn't being properly processed by the PHP processor. Sorry, I'm not so good with all the technical language, but see here what I mean: 8millane.homeip.net/cellcize/ (assuming people outside my network can access the server).

Any help with these problems would be great, I'm thinking theres a setting somewhere in the PHP config files which enables this.

Thanks,
Jon.

[thorpe]

i cant access that address. its just hanging. do you know your ip? let us try that. as for the other problem... you'll need to post some code. maybe register_globals is off in your config, but this is a good thing and if so, your code should be changed accordingly.

[jboy161]

Sorry, give that a try again, i was just playing around with Apache and stuff. Incidently the ip is 80.189.222.163

[thorpe]

nup... no luck with either the domain or ip. have you setup your router to forward port 80 to your server?

[jboy161]

Well I thought I had but that seems to be where the problem lies. I have the following inbound rule setup.

Service: HTTP (TCP:80)
Action: Always Allow
Send to LAN server: 192.168.0.2
WAN users: Any

Do I need an outbound rule as well? I've looked around on the Netgear site, but not much helpful info. I have the lastest router firmware installed.

Good news about the PHP side of things though, I installed apache2triad, which gets all the different net technologies talking with the server, and now all's well with the PHP side of things.

[thorpe]

still no luck. you havent got any firewall software or anything else that might block this port on the server? what connection speed have you got?

[jboy161]

ok, i've just switched off ZoneAlam, maybe that'll help. I have a 1 mega bit dsl connection. The ip is dynamic but is still 80.189.222.163

[thorpe]

yep that fixed it. you should be able to allow post 80 on your firewall and your set.

great work. seems pretty quick too.

[jboy161]

excellent, wow. My first web server! and you can view the http://80.189.222.163/cellcize/ site ok?

[thorpe]

yep.. that page is working too.

[LoganK]

Yep, I can get to it via IP address or hostname...although without the cellcize directory, it's kind of blah 😃

[jboy161]

Lol - yeah, i'm still working on that site so I want it to be a little more hidden

[LoganK]

Aw c'mon...you can't even show us? 😃

At least it seems like everything is working for you!

[jboy161]

huh, can't you access that directory?

[LoganK]

Yeah, but that's it! You're saying there's nothing else on that webserver?

In the root of the webserver, paste the following code and save it as index.php:

<?php
# Do we have a path? if not, it's the current directory
   $path = @$_GET["path"];
   if( !isset( $path ) || $path == "" )  {
     $path = ".";
   }

   if (!isset($_GET['path']))
   {
   }
   else
   {
	if ($_GET['path'] != '.')
	{
		echo "Are you a hacker? Trying to view files outside my webspace, geez!";
		die();
	}
   }

   # Print out for navigation

   # Initialise list arrays, directories and files separately and array counters for them
   $d_arr = array(); $d = 0;
   $f_arr = array(); $f = 0;

   # Open possibly available directory
   if( is_dir( $path ) ) {
     if( $handle = opendir( $path ) ) {
         while( false !== ( $file = readdir( $handle ) ) ) {
           # Make sure we don't push parental directories or dotfiles (unix) into the arrays
           if( $file != "." && $file != ".." && $file[0] != "." ) {
               if( is_dir( $path . "/" . $file ) )
                 # Create array for directories
                 $d_arr[$d++] = $file;
               else
                 # Create array for files
                 $f_arr[$f++] = $file;
           }
         }
     }
   }

   # Wrap things up if we're in a directory
   if( is_dir( $handle ) ) closedir( $handle );

   # Sort and reset the arrays
   asort( $d_arr ); reset( $d_arr );
   asort( $f_arr ); reset( $f_arr );

   # Print a parent directory link
   # $d_prev = substr( $path, 0, ( strrpos( dirname( $path . "/." ), "/" ) ) );
   # print "<a href=\"?path=" . $d_prev . "\"> Parent directory </a><br />\n";

   # Print the directory list
   for( $i=0; $i < count( $d_arr ); $i++ ) {
     # Print with query string
     print "<b><a href=\"$d_arr[$i]\">&lt;" . $d_arr[$i] . "&gt;</a></b><br />\n";
   }

   echo "<br><table border='0'><tr><td><b><center>Filename</center></b></td><td>&nbsp;</td><td><b><center>Size</center></b></td></tr>";
   # Print file list
   for( $i=0; $i < count( $f_arr ); $i++ ) {
     # Only print path and filename
     print "<tr><td><code><a href=\"$f_arr[$i]\"> " . $f_arr[$i] . "</a></code></td><td>&nbsp;</td>";
     # We may want a file size. NOTE: needs $path to stat
     if( filesize( $path . "/" . $f_arr[$i] ) >= 1024 ) {
         # Size in kilobytes
         print "<td>" . round( filesize( $path . "/" . $f_arr[$i] ) / 1024, 1 ) . " kilobytes</td></tr>\n";
     } elseif( filesize( $path . "/" . $f_arr[$i] ) >= 1048576 ) {
         # Size in megabytes
         print " " . round( filesize( $path . "/" . $f_arr[$i] ) / 1024 / 1024, 1 ) . " MB<br />\n";
     } else {
         # Size in bytes
         print "<td>" . filesize( $path . "/" . $f_arr[$i] ) . " bytes</td></tr>\n";
     }
   }
?>

[jboy161]

OK, yeah there's a few other things on the web server, just like server admin stuff. I'm mainly useing the server just to test any websites i'm working on, that's all, at least for the time being anyway.

[LoganK]

That's what I use mine for as well...and I have the script in the root so I see at a glance all the directories and files in my server root. 🙂

[jboy161]

I see. Well, i just stuck a quick index page in the root so that anyone stumbling upon the site, somehow, wouldn't be able to see the projects i'm working on.

[LoganK]

Allright...I have a quick question though - what's "phppgadmin"?

[jboy161]

I've no idea cause it wont even take my password. It was installed with Apache2Triad