Randall Rowe wrote:
Why not host it on the machine you have it installed on? If your LAN has access to the internet through a firewall, simply port forward your koha installation to an available outside IP.
While I agree with this, people need to be aware of some of the problems of placing a server on the Internet, where it is vulnerable to all kinds of hack attacks from porno websites to "roaming" bittorrents. At the minimum, I would suggest working with the robots.txt file to disallow Google, Yahoo, etc. from hitting your computer, since they can hit very hard, and in fact, I learned the hard way by having my little server crash repeatedly until I finally shut them out. Making very regular backups is absolutely necessary! Running your own web server is a learning experience! James L. Weinheimer j.weinheimer@aur.edu Director of Library and Information Services The American University of Rome Rome, Italy First Thus: http://catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/ email: gmc@esilibrary.com direct: +1 352-215-7548 skype: gmcharlt web: http://www.esilibrary.com/ _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha