Setting up Frontier questions:

[Mark Gillingham]

Has anyone responded? For a trial, I would not start other web serving 
or worry about mail. Try 127.0.0.1 as the address. That should work even 
on your PB. There is lots to learn in Frontier. 60 days may not be 
enough.

Mark

On Friday, March 15, 2002, at 01:46 PM, Douglas Wagner wrote:

> Hello:
> I've just started my 60 day exploration of Frontier and Manila. I'm 
> using a Wallstreet PowerBook running Mac OS 10.1.3. My only network 
> connection is by modem to my local ISP, which doesn't run Frontier. I'd 
> like to explore two areas: static web site creation and setting up and 
> using Frontier as a server on my PowerBook.
>
> However, at the moment I'm stuck at installation. I have the serial 
> number but how do I find the domain name of my computer. As my machine 
> is stand alone, do I use a dummy IP number? I don't run a mail server, 
> of course.
>
> If I turn on the html server as the installation guide recommends, will 
> this allow me to simulate a server on my machine? Serve documents to 
> myself as it were?
>
> Thanks: DW
>
>