Web server on a standalone Linux with LinkSys WRT54GL ADSL router

Hello,

I want to install a Web server on a standalone Linux with LinkSys
WRT54GL ADSL router.

All I need is something simple there - to host one web html page there
with a few links. I want to be able to access that page from the
Internet through some DNS address. This address can be obtained, for
example, by noip.com or dyndns.

I googled for this and found some hints, but I wish to know from
somebody who has experience with it: is it possible ?
Any recommended links (which work) for such installation?

Regards,
Ian

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to install a Web server on a standalone Linux with LinkSys
> WRT54GL ADSL router.
>
> All I need is something simple there - to host one web html page there
> with a few links. I want to be able to access that page from the
> Internet through some DNS address. This address can be obtained, for
> example, by noip.com or dyndns.
>
> I googled for this and found some hints, but I wish to know from
> somebody who has experience with it: is it possible ?
> Any recommended links (which work) for such installation?
>
> Regards,
> Ian

No problem - just get a free hostname from dyndns.org and configure your
router to:

1. route incoming http (port 80) traffic to your web server and
2. keep dyndns.org updated with your IP address

Robert

Thanks, Robert.

It could be that I was not precise in my question.

I am not talking about installing a web server on one Linux machine
and redirecting http traffic for it from the router.
I am talking about installing a web server on the LinkSys
WRT54GL router itself, and being able to access that web server
with some DNS address ( which I can get from dyndns, for example).
This LinkSys WRT54GL router will be a standalone device in the
configuration I am talking about,
, it has Linux on it, and no other machine is connected to that
LinkSys router in that aimed configuration.

So in terms of power the consumption is reasonable when thinking on a
web server which in fact holds one html file which
contains merely some lines of text.

Is this possible ? did you aim at such configuration in your answer?

Regards,
Ian



On Dec 8, 1:27 pm, Robert Harris <robert.f.har...@blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote:
> ian...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > I want to install a Web server on a standalone Linux with LinkSys
> > WRT54GL ADSL router.
>
> > All I need is something simple there - to host one web html page there
> > with a few links. I want to be able to access that page from the
> > Internet through some DNS address. This address can be obtained, for
> > example, by noip.com or dyndns.
>
> > I googled for this and found some hints, but I wish to know from
> > somebody who has experience with it: is it possible ?
> > Any recommended links (which work) for such installation?
>
> > Regards,
> > Ian
>
> No problem - just get a free hostname from dyndns.org and configure your
> router to:
>
> 1. route incoming http (port 80) traffic to your web server and
> 2. keep dyndns.org updated with your IP address
>
> Robert

On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:27:37 +0000, Robert Harris rearranged some
electrons to say:

> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to install a Web server on a standalone Linux with LinkSys
>> WRT54GL ADSL router.
>>
>> All I need is something simple there - to host one web html page there
>> with a few links. I want to be able to access that page from the
>> Internet through some DNS address. This address can be obtained, for
>> example, by noip.com or dyndns.
>>
>> I googled for this and found some hints, but I wish to know from
>> somebody who has experience with it: is it possible ? Any recommended
>> links (which work) for such installation?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ian
>
> No problem - just get a free hostname from dyndns.org and configure your
> router to:
>
> 1. route incoming http (port 80) traffic to your web server and 2. keep
> dyndns.org updated with your IP address
>
> Robert

Specifically, you'll need to go to your router's configuration page
(point your web browser at the gateway IP address). You'll want to open
the 'port forwarding' page (on my WRT54G it is called "Applications").
You'll also want to make sure that you have some security features
enabled: turn off remote management, and reset the default password.

You did know that your router *does* come with instructions, didn't you?
www.linksys.com

Apache works well as a web server. It takes some configuration, but it is
very robust.
http://httpd.apache.org/

On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:45:01 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) rearranged some
electrons to say:

> Thanks, Robert.
>
> It could be that I was not precise in my question.
>
> I am not talking about installing a web server on one Linux machine
> and redirecting http traffic for it from the router. I am talking about
> installing a web server on the LinkSys WRT54GL router itself, and being
> able to access that web server with some DNS address ( which I can get
> from dyndns, for example). This LinkSys WRT54GL router will be a
> standalone device in the configuration I am talking about,
> , it has Linux on it, and no other machine is connected to that LinkSys
> router in that aimed configuration.
>
> So in terms of power the consumption is reasonable when thinking on a
> web server which in fact holds one html file which contains merely some
> lines of text.
>
> Is this possible ? did you aim at such configuration in your answer?
>
> Regards,
> Ian
>
>
>
> On Dec 8, 1:27 pm, Robert Harris <robert.f.har...@blueyonder.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> ian...@gmail.com wrote:
>> > Hello,
>>
>> > I want to install a Web server on a standalone Linux with LinkSys
>> > WRT54GL ADSL router.
>>
>> > All I need is something simple there - to host one web html page
>> > there with a few links. I want to be able to access that page from
>> > the Internet through some DNS address. This address can be obtained,
>> > for example, by noip.com or dyndns.
>>
>> > I googled for this and found some hints, but I wish to know from
>> > somebody who has experience with it: is it possible ? Any recommended
>> > links (which work) for such installation?
>>
>> > Regards,
>> > Ian
>>
>> No problem - just get a free hostname from dyndns.org and configure
>> your router to:
>>
>> 1. route incoming http (port 80) traffic to your web server and 2. keep
>> dyndns.org updated with your IP address
>>
>> Robert

There are lots of open-source packages for this hardware:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G#...mware_projects

david <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Apache works well as a web server. It takes some configuration, but it is
> very robust.
> http://httpd.apache.org/

For a small website thttpd and micro_httpd are both good.

I like chttpd. It is very small and compact and fast, and ideal for an
embedded device. Unfortunately it contains a bug which causes images not to
display if the trailing slash is missing from the address. (This probably only
requires a couple of lines of code to be changed or added. An experienced C
programmer would probably be able to fix this in a few minutes.)

http://markhobley.yi.org:8000/chttpdSlashBug

If you don't want to fix it, then thttpd is a good stand alone server. The
micro_httpd daemon runs via the internet superserver daemon.

Regards,

Mark.

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B32 1QE

Email: markhobley at hotpop dot donottypethisbit com

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On 2007-12-08, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> I want to install a Web server on a standalone Linux with LinkSys
> WRT54GL ADSL router.
>
> All I need is something simple there - to host one web html page there
> with a few links.

If you aren't already, I'd suggest looking at OpenWRT, which replaces
the default firmware on the GL. It comes with an extensive packaging
system, from which you can install one of quite a few small web servers
(IIRC the ones mentioned, thttpd and micro_httpd, as well as lighttpd).

I have not configured my 54GL for public web serving, but I have
installed lighttpd with SSL support on it for the OpenWRT web interface,
and their docs are relatively straightforward (they're on the OpenWRT
wiki).

--keith

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On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:45:11 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to install a Web server on a standalone Linux with LinkSys
> WRT54GL ADSL router.
>
> All I need is something simple there - to host one web html page there
> with a few links. I want to be able to access that page from the
> Internet through some DNS address. This address can be obtained, for
> example, by noip.com or dyndns.
>
> I googled for this and found some hints, but I wish to know from
> somebody who has experience with it: is it possible ?
> Any recommended links (which work) for such installation?
>
> Regards,
> Ian

You can do it with Tomato 3rd party firmware. I think there is even a
howto in the docs.

http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

I am running the firmware on my 54GL at the moment.

ItsNewToYou

Hello,
Thanks to all who answered.
I had looked in:
http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato
and could not find a HowTo;
I would like to sharpen my question:
is there a way to set an extenal IP on the LinkSys router ?

I want to be able to do so, so that it will start with this IP when
the
LinkSys router is restarted as a **standalone**, and also when
it has a desktop connected to it for accessing the net.

And , if anybody has any experience with setting a website on
such LinkSys 54GL router it would be great if he will share it with
us.

Regards,
Ian

On Dec 11, 9:26 pm, itsnewtoyou <na...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:45:11 -0800, ian...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > I want to install a Web server on a standalone Linux with LinkSys
> > WRT54GL ADSL router.
>
> > All I need is something simple there - to host one web html page there
> > with a few links. I want to be able to access that page from the
> > Internet through some DNS address. This address can be obtained, for
> > example, by noip.com or dyndns.
>
> > I googled for this and found some hints, but I wish to know from
> > somebody who has experience with it: is it possible ?
> > Any recommended links (which work) for such installation?
>
> > Regards,
> > Ian
>
> You can do it with Tomato 3rd party firmware. I think there is even a
> howto in the docs.
>
> http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato
>
> I am running the firmware on my 54GL at the moment.
>
> ItsNewToYou