Home Hacking Projects for Geeks

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Part I: Home Automation

So in my case, where I used the TCP port 6332, purchased the domain name

northrup.org, and assigned the hostname www to my home network’s pub-

lic IP address, I would enter the following URL:

http://www.northrup.org:6332/

If you did not purchase a domain name, simply use the IP address instead,

such as:

http://208.201.239.37:6332/

Your web server won’t have a default page at this point, but that’s okay;

in fact, it’s probably for the best. You don’t ever need to set up a default

page—instead, just type the path to the application you’ve installed. Later

projects in this book will walk you through the process of configuring a

virtual directory to contain each project, and accessing that project from a

browser.

6. Install Image Display System (IDS)

Image Display System is a set of Perl scripts that displays a web interface for

directories full of pictures. It’s a good choice for this project because:

• It doesn’t require a database.

• It’s fairly easy to set up.

• It’s free.

• I know one of the guys who worked on the project.

To set up IDS, follow these steps:

1. Download the latest version of IDS from http://sourceforge.net/projects/

ids/ (Version 0.82 as of the time of this writing). Save the *.tar.gz file to

your home directory.

2. Determine your ScriptAlias by issuing the following command:

grep '^ *ScriptAlias' /etc/httpd/conf/*.conf ...