Hello,

 

I was unable to find anything about this in the forums so far but i am surprised since i figured this would be a common problem.  maybe I am missing something.  if it is already out there please link me to it

 

My wife is a teacher and would like to have her own website for her classroom and I was under the impression that you can use unRAID to serve a website but cannot find out where the index.html or whatever the main page is called.  Here are detailed questions for it:

1) if it is already installed how do I access/update it?

2) is it only on the flash drive or can I have it saved on one of the hard drives?

3) how do i create internal links if it must be on the usb key and i want to link to pictures on the hard drives?

 

any assistance would be greatly appreciated

Hello,

 

I was unable to find anything about this in the forums so far but i am surprised since i figured this would be a common problem.  maybe I am missing something.  if it is already out there please link me to it

 

My wife is a teacher and would like to have her own website for her classroom and I was under the impression that you can use unRAID to serve a website but cannot find out where the index.html or whatever the main page is called.  Here are detailed questions for it:

1) if it is already installed how do I access/update it?

2) is it only on the flash drive or can I have it saved on one of the hard drives?

3) how do i create internal links if it must be on the usb key and i want to link to pictures on the hard drives?

 

any assistance would be greatly appreciated

unRAID uses its own propritary server.  There is no "index.html"

 

You can install your own web-server.  Many like lighttpd as it is very lightweight.   Then you can set it up to do as you please.  You will need to either put it on a different port than port 80 (since unRAID uses that port, and not on a port that any off the common  add-ons use)

OR, you can edit the config/go script to put emhttp (the unRAID web-server) on a port other than port 80 by using the

emhttp -p NN

option and then use port 80 for your web-site.

 

So you're going to open up your unRAID server to the public, to serve a website for your wife's classroom? I don't know, you may want to look into a free/cheap online webhost for that.  I'm sure you can lock down the router to only allow that one port through, but it just might create security issues you can avoid.

 

I can see the benefit of using it has a LOCAL website, for testing and such--I think I'm going to use my unRAID server as my SVN server for checking in any development code I work on.

 

Just some things to consider...

Hello,

 

I was unable to find anything about this in the forums so far but i am surprised since i figured this would be a common problem.  maybe I am missing something.  if it is already out there please link me to it

 

My wife is a teacher and would like to have her own website for her classroom and I was under the impression that you can use unRAID to serve a website but cannot find out where the index.html or whatever the main page is called.  Here are detailed questions for it:

1) if it is already installed how do I access/update it?

2) is it only on the flash drive or can I have it saved on one of the hard drives?

3) how do i create internal links if it must be on the usb key and i want to link to pictures on the hard drives?

 

any assistance would be greatly appreciated

 

If you plan on making this available to students and people outside of your network then I highly suggest abandoning running this on unRAID and look for a hosting service.

 

Something like GoDaddy, A Small Orange, etc.  Sign up for a domain and create a website to use from there.

 

The GreenLeaf Technology site is hosted by A Small Orange.  If you are not familiar with web development and you have a Mac I highly suggest looking into RapidWeaver.  There are probably similar apps for Windows, though I have not specifically looked for any.  GreenLeaf's site was created almost entirely in RapidWeaver, though there have been some tweaks and custom stuff added.

I create sites for clients in Photoshop and slice them up and code manually, but I should really look into RapidWeaver.  They have some nice plugins! Probably great to use even for people who are more experienced, just to remove the tedium of design.

I create sites for clients in Photoshop and slice them up and code manually, but I should really look into RapidWeaver.  They have some nice plugins! Probably great to use even for people who are more experienced, just to remove the tedium of design.

 

There are for sure some limitation with RapidWeaver, but I have found it to work very well.  You can code straight HTML pages from within RapidWeaver so the flexibility is still there.

Check, don't use unraid as webserver, opening it to the outside world bad.

 

with that in mind I would like to be able to access the files from other places like work and friends houses and the ever important parents houses.

 

I see that logmein hamachi2 has options and there is even a thread on this forum (linky) but I just wanted to know if there is a better way to do this securely?  some software I have neaver heard of or maybe something already built into unRAID?

I don't know what country you are in, but it is possible to find some very cost-effective web hosts.  I'm using 5quidhost - if your requirements are very limited, you can even avail their free plan.  It really is absolutely free - no strings attached, other then the hope that you will, one day, upgrade to one of the paid plans.

 

I'm sure that I'm not the only person to start with a free plan as a quick test, and then upgrade once all is working satisfactorily.

Well... I would say a bad idea in all contexts.  If I was doing it, I would port forward from the home router, and use lighttpd with chroot, I wouldn't have a lot of heartburn doing that.

I am in the USA but I'm sure there are many free hosts I could find her, I was just thinking as long as I had a server up and running it might be easier but hosting elsewhere also means I can take the unRAID server down for cleaning and not worry about taking her site down.

 

Website aside, does anybody have advise for the sharing files idea?  Or is hamachi2 the best option?

opening this as its own question