Re: Website on a USB key?

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 01:40 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 04:24:24PM +1100, Clancy wrote: >> >> > I bought some appliance recently, and found that they had thrown in a 2G >> > USB key for good >> > luck.  I guess I ought to be able to put a PHP server plus a copy of my >> > website on it for >> > demonstration purposes, but has anyone actually tried it, and if so are >> > there any traps to >> > avoid? >> >> Maybe I'm dense or I don't understand your question. It sounds like you >> want to run lighttpd or apache on this USB device in order to serve up >> your website. If so, then the device would have to be assigned a >> separate IP address from the machine it's mounted on. Someone would have >> to be able to surf to that IP at least, much less have the IP address >> translated into a name. Otherwise, there's no way a web server can serve >> up a website; it has to have an IP address. I don't know how you'd >> possibly do that. Even then, you'd have to mount the device and then >> issue a separate call to the USB-hosted web server to start, and then >> serve your site up. > > 127.0.0.1 and name localhost should suffice. You might want to use a > non-standard port so that it doesn't conflict with anything else the > machine is running. I've been running XAMPP and even Eclipse from my USB key for well over a year now. It works like a charm. Fantastic for demonstrations, or if you've got a pet project that you need to test and carry with you. -- // Todd