temporary IP addres

Anon

I'm running PHP4 with Apache on my Win98 machine.

I'm kina new to this stuff and I was wondering if I can obtain my temporary IP address that my ISP gives me when I dial in, and use that as my host in Apache, and be able to host a site (as long as I'm logged in).

If this is possible, How do I get the temporary IP address given to me by my ISP?

Thanks

junebug

make a script like this:

echo "$REMOTE_ADDR";

view that script and it will display your current ip address.

Anon

... except if you are using the loopback, in which case it will gives you 127.0.0.1 ...

Anon

Which is what it gave me. Under normal circumstances (working while not connected) I'm using local loopback, i.e.,

ServerName 127.0.0.1

I want to change this variable to the temporary IP address that was given to me by my ISP (let's assume it's 144.144.144.144) in hopes that someone could view my page, assuming I'm dialed in at:

http://144.144.144.144/mypage.php

Is this possible?

How can I get the temporary address assigned to me by my ISP?

Anon

If you are using linux or similar, just type ifconfig at the command line, you are looking for an address associated with a block of text starting PPP some number.

In windows 98 run winipcfg from the run box in the start menu, that will tell you what's configured.

There's something similar for NT ipconfig but it has to be run from a command line I think.

It's probably the same for Win ME and 2000 but, I dunno for sure.

If you want to run these from within a PHP script you might try using exec but I've never tried it.

Hope this helps

Paul

Anon

it works also for ME and 2k.
And it is command line indeed ;-)

ame12

You can host on your own box even if you have a dynamic IP. Check out http://www.d2g.com for instance (DNS2Go). You can get your own subdomain like http://newbie.d2g.com and whenever your machine is online, your friends can get to it.

Dave

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