I want to run my local html file which is saved on my desktop, on Safari of my iPhone. I have a local web server running on my system (xampp) as well as I have opened the ports(on which the file is running) required through my firewall. Is there any other settings I need to do on my iPhone also?
Please explain how to run the file. Thanks in advance!
If your ISP provides a dynamic IP address you'll need to look into a service which overcomes this, for example No IP. That way all you'll need to do is type in the domain provided to get to your web app.
Therefore, instead of accessing http://123.123.123.123:8080 you simply run http://your-new-domain.com:8080.
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I am trying to make something work but I am not sure it is even possible. Here is the rundown on the devices I have connected.
Main linux webserver - Authenticated website, controls some things, ran on device 1, IP address exposed to the internet.
2nd linux webserver - Accessed on local network only, device controls different things than the 1st. Ran on device 2.
3rd linux webserver - Once again, accessed on local network only, device controls different things than the 1st and 2nd. Ran on device 3.
Is it possible to display the webpage of the 2nd and 3rd web server via an iframe off the first main device webpage? I first thought I could do a reverse proxy but, when I followed guides on the internet, I could get the iframe to only display off the main webserver page when the client device was on the local network, otherwise it looks like the iframe is trying to connect to the ip address of the 2nd and 3rd device which is not exposed to the internet.
Would a reverse proxy be able to achieve this without exposing the other 2 devices directly to the web and I just didn't set it up correctly? Is there another way to do this or just deal with this limitation?
Thank you!
I tried setting up a reverse proxy from this guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-apache-as-a-reverse-proxy-with-mod_proxy-on-ubuntu-16-04 and https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-apache-http-server-as-reverse-proxy-using-mod_proxy-extension
'Main linux webserver' must be able to ping the other two servers.
The other two local servers have a unique IP address - right?
On the other two local servers you could have apache serving up web pages.
Then 'Main linux webserver' can then request the URL pages from other two servers to get the pages into iframes.
i have a problem with local network connection. i'm writing an iphone application and i need to read/write files to a computer. Both devices connected on the same network.
if it's possible, i want to get connected computers ip list, select one of them and read/write files like pdf, doc, txt etc.. if it's not possible to do, i will write the computer ip which i want to connect. There is no problem, both of solution is OK.
But i dont know what do i do after get the computer's ip ?
i found this chat client/server on local, but i got it very complicated.
Anyone have any idea about this ?
You'll need to have a server running on the computer, which can show files and allow for files to be read and created.
Easiest is to run a webdav service on the computer, Apache provides the mod_dav module for this purpose.
The iPhone app then becomes the client. I'd suggest using neon for this purpose. It's a C library that provides listing, reading and writing files on a remote webdav server.
That's how I would do it.
1) Find the network address of the computer you want to connect to. For this you can make use of Bonjour. It's very easy to setup because Bonjour handles the resolving of address for you.
You just have to publish a service (e.g. _myprotocol._tcp) via the ´NSNetService` class which is available on iOS and OS X (Windows too)- in your case you would publish the service on your computer.
Then you search for the service with the NSNetServiceBrowser class.
When you found a service you can then resolve it. This actually gives you the network name of the other device.
2) Connect to the other device via a tcp socket. The CocoaAsyncSocket library is very good at this. This project also includes some examples. One example already provides a bonjour server and client implementation.
i found exactly what i want. The solution is here
In short I'm trying to browse a Mac's web site on the local wifi network under a .local hostname that is not the same as the machine's 'computer name' and think I'm missing a setup step.
I have a local install of nginx on my Macbook, with the proper /etc/hosts and nginx.conf entries to serve multiple sites, each with their own distinct local hostname. Assume the Macbook's network name is computername.local, and I have 2 sites running, one at http://computername.local and another at http://servicename.local. I can access each of these sites just fine from the local machine, but also want to be able to access http://servicename.local from an iPhone on the same WiFi network. I'm getting a timeout for that URL, but the other one works just fine.
I'm guessing something has to be done to allow servicename.local to be used on the local network, which I've left out. What is required to do that? Do I need to use Bonjour for that? Where would I add this new local hostname?
Another Mac on the same network can access this one under servicename.local just fine if I define the IP in its /etc/hosts file too, but I can't modify that file on the iPhone obviously. It's not jailbroken, and I'm not really interested in doing that just to get this working.
Not sure if it will help the OP, but another way of doing this - besides running a DNS server or jailbreaking the phone - is to run an HTTP proxy on the Mac, and configure the iPhone to use the proxy. Then the iPhone will pick up the Mac's local hosts file entries because it resolves DNS queries through the proxy. I've blogged about how to do this using the free Mac proxy "SquidMan" here: http://egalo.com/99j
I'm developing an iPhone app that has a network component. I'm developing the app in Java (Google App Engine actually), running on port 8080. And it works, when I test my app in the iPhone simulator.
But now I am trying to test on the device, and I can't hit my Jetty instance. I can certainly access my Mac via the iPhone because I'm able to hit http://10.0.1.7/~brianpapa/ and view my Home Folder when Web Sharing is turned on. But when I try to hit http://10.0.1.7:8080/, it says it can't connect to the server.
Interestingly, if I try to hit http://10.0.1.7:8080/ from my mac, it doesn't work either - I have to use localhost as the hostname instead, then it's fine. Has anybody ever encountered this before, and know how to fix it?
You need to bind the server to your external ip address. See the docs:
--address=...
The host address to use for the server. You may need to set this to be able to access the development server from another computer on your network. An address of 0.0.0.0 allows both localhost access and hostname access. Default is localhost.
I want to create an iPhone app which makes calls to a web service. For testing, I want to first create the API calls on my mac (server running XAMPP) and if it works fine there I want to port it to the actual server.
If my iPhone and mac are on the same network, can I access the web service using the IP address of my mac?
Thanks.
Any time someone answers with "why not," ignore the post. This just takes up space and adds absolutely no value...their post imitating their life.
Anyway, I access my laptop localhost (WAMP stack) from my iPod Touch by entering the IP address of my laptop on my Touch location bar. There is some configuration that needs to happen for this to work. I found what I needed at:
http://www.frihost.com/forums/vt-88381.html
Good Luck!
I can not speak about actual development, however I access intranet pages from a Ipod Touch all the time by either typing http ://ip or http://local_dns_name
As long as the iphone / ipod is on the network correctly (e.g. through standard wifi and not 3g/whatever) you should be able to access any and all local resources.
What I do:
Connected to the same network, I go in to the wireless settings and create a manual proxy that points to my machine. I use Charles proxy for testing a lot/seeing traffic, works like a charm and it lets me use my macbook hosts file so I don't need to do any funky listening rules in apache - just the same vhost settings I use on my machine already.
http://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/faqs/using-charles-from-an-iphone/
Why not?
Have you tried it and have some problems?