Re: Making Minivend on personal web server (Windows 98) available to the outside world.

[John Hoinacki <Jhoinacki@home.com>]

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You might try using your ip address as the url. (ie
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/index.html)

Ben Hess wrote:
> 
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> I thought I might speed up Minivend by making my Windows 98 (Pentium
> II/128K) PC (cable connection) into a Personal Web Server and linking the
> order page of my web site to the Personal Web Server.  Getting Minivend to
> work on my PC was no problem.  The Personal Web Server says that the URL is
> http://oemcomputer.san.rr.com/bw.exe.  I tried that and it works fine.  Then
> I called a friend and asked her to try it from a different computer and as I
> suspected, it doesn't work from the remote computer.  It says: "Unable to
> locate server".
> 
> My question is - Does anyone know how to make the PC Personal Web Server
> accessible to the outside world.
> 
> Ben Hess
> http://www.qualitycounts.com
> 
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