[Ham-Mac] How to publish on the Web

Sun Jan 20 14:27:46 EST 2013

For the dns portion, check out someone like no-ip.com or dyndns.com.

Free and they provide tools that track your IP address. Then you have a dns
name that stays pointed to your address.

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Fernando <n2fq at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I use the web (apache) that came bundled up with my iMac.
>
> It's easy to setup.
>
> Have a look at mine that is currently running on my Mac here:
>
> <http://67.121.147.138>
>
> My problem is that I don't have a 'static ip address' (too expensive for
> me)
>
> so once in awhile,  my provider changes the address 'dynamic ip address'.
>
>
> In summary, what is basically needed is :
>
> a) to edit the index.html located in "/Library/WebServer/Documents"
>
> b) move your stuff there
>
>
>
> Fernando N2FQ/6
> n2fq at sbcglobal.net
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 20, 2013, at 10:17 AM, Chuck Counselman <ccc at space.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > 1. In the sixth paragraph of this message, I ask how to publish
> ham-radio-related material by means of a Mac.  To answer this question, it
> may help you to know more about what I'm trying to accomplish, and why.  My
> second through fifth paragraphs provide such background information.  Thank
> you for
> >
> > 2. During my career as a professor at a research university (MIT) I
> generated thousands of scientific/engineering/technical reports that were
> published by scientific/engineering professional societies in their
> journals, proceedings of symposia, etc., and as government contract
> reports.  This publishing was easy because I had only to compose and edit
> the subject material; the rest was done by clerical, technical,
> engineering, and/or scientific staff.
> >
> > 3. Now I'm retired; my research and development efforts are limited to
> ham radio; but I still generate material that needs to be published -- not
> to satisfy an employer, a contract sponsor, or my vanity, but because I
> cannot cope with all the requests for information that I receive by e-mail.
>  For _years_ after I contribute a little two-page article to a ham club
> newsletter (which is appears on the club's website), I receive daily
> requests for more information.  Mostly these are reasonable requests; so I
> try hard to answer; but composing an adequate reply to each request,
> including finding the relevant files [photographs, drawings, tables and
> graphs of data, formulas/functions, and text in Microsoft Office (Word,
> Excel, PowerPoint) documents and files having various other formats,
> including audio, video, .txt, .rtf, and .pdf], the URLs of external
> references/sources, ..., making the necessary updates, adding the necessary
> preface/caveats/summary/conclusions, and including e
>  ve
> > rything in or attaching it to an e-mailed reply, takes too much time.
>  Often the quantity of data is more than my correspondent's incoming e-mail
> server will accept, so I must pack everything into a .zip file and upload
> that to a server from which he/she can download it.  Then, more often than
> not, my reply results in _further_ questions.  I am overwhelmed; I cannot
> answer all the questions I receive, not even the ones I _want_ to answer.
> >
> > 4. The obvious solution is to organize and upload my photographs, tables
> and graphs of data, descriptions, URLs of external sources, ..., to add the
> necessary prefaces, caveats, summaries, conclusions, FAQs, etc., and to
> update everything if/as necessary, to a website.  Then most of the
> questions I received could be answered adequately by referring people to
> the website.  When a new question and/or answer arose, instead of or in
> addition to replying only by e-mail, I would compose something and upload
> it the website as a new document, and/or by incorporating it in a FAQ or
> other existing preface/caveat/summary/conclusory document as a
> revision/update.
> >
> > 5. The Internet service companies that provide me with e-mail service
> also provide me with web space, and with their proprietary web-publishing
> tools.  However, all these tools are Windows-based.  I am reluctant to use
> these tools for at least three reasons: (1) because I prefer to use a Mac;
> (2) because I fear not being able to revise or maintain the resulting web
> pages if/when I switch to another web service provider, because the html
> generated by the former provider's proprietary software is incompatible
> with the new provider's software; and (3) because I fear that the resulting
> web pages won't work properly for other Mac users.  Too many web pages
> composed by colleagues using Windows-based tools do not work properly when
> I try to view them by means of Safari or Firefox running in my Mac.
> >
> >
> > 6. My QUESTION is:
> >
> >    How can I publish my stuff (described above) on the Web, by means of
> Mac OS X software?
> >
> >    I envision generating pages as html files and uploading these along
> with my numerous Microsoft Office, audio, video, .pdf, and other files to a
> Web server maintained by a company that also hosts my registered domain.  I
> want my web pages to be portable, if/when I change providers/hosting
> companies.  At present my provider/hosting company is Network Solutions.
>  However, Network Solutions' service has deteriorated -- just as the
> service provided by every one of my several previous providers
> deteriorated.  So, when my contract with Network Solutions nears
> expiration, I'll want to move to another provider -- just as I've moved
> before.
> >
> >    I have searched both for Macintosh web-publishing app's and for
> service providers, several times; but I have yet to find a satisfactory
> solution, I think mostly because I am not a software guy.  I know next to
> nothing about web publishing, and I'm reluctant to try to learn much about
> it, because I have neither time nor interest in the topic.  I just wanna
> get my stuff on the web.  I don't care whether my web pages look beautiful
> or creative, as long as they're easily navigable, they _work_, and I can
> easily maintain them.
> >
> >    I know that I could use a "blog," e.g., by means of Wordpress, but a
> blog seems like the wrong format.  I don't want a time-serial presentation.
>  I don't want a diary or a chronology.  I want a logical, hierarchical,
> organization.  I want to organize my web pages by topic, and I want to
> cross-link them.  I want my web pages to be easy to navigate.  I want them
> easily _searchable_; and I want the search engine to be smart.
> >
> >    I believe that I could do something with a ham website such as
> qth.com, but I fear that these free or cheap services are too limited in
> storage space and in speed.  I'm willing to pay for better service.
> >
> >    Should I just hire someone to do my web-publishing, as I suspect most
> _businesses_ do?  I fear that hiring someone would cost too much, but I
> have never done it and I don't know.  If any of you has experience with a
> hired publisher, please describe your experience(s) and what it has cost or
> is costing you.  Remember that I am not looking for creativity or artwork.
>  My needs are pretty basic and utilitarian.  Also, I want to be able to
> revise and add to my pages without having to deal with another person every
> time I want to correct a typo or update a link.
> >
> >
> > 7. Thank you.  Feel free to reply to me off-list, although I like it
> when subscribers reply to the list, because then everyone can learn from
> the information they post.
> >
> >
> > 73 de Chuck, W1HIS
> >
> >
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