Install the web server... I recommend "Cherokee", or if you have a Mac, Just go to "System Preferences" and then "Sharing" and enable "Web Sharing". Let's say the Server in this case - has the address of 192.168.2.200.
Hopefully, you can access the hosts file on every machine, in which case you just put an entry for your thishouse server in each computer's hosts file... for example..
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.0 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
192.168.2.200 thishouse thishouse.com www thishouse.local
- If not, you will need to "localize" the DNS resolution. You can use the "Server" for this, by installing a simple DNS server. I like DNSMASQ. A sample config might look like...
# Add domains which you want to force to an IP address here.
address=/thishouse/192.168.2.200
# Add other name servers here, with domain specs
# if they are for non-public domains.
server=/localnet/192.168.2.200
server=8.8.8.8 # google's DNS Server, to "go online"
- Then you a: point your ISP router's DNS to your internal server (192.168.2.200), and aa: have it provide DNS at it's address
.1, to the internal LAN, using the .200 server to actually resolve local and "remote" addresses... or bb: just use the .200 address on ALL machines to do DNS resolution.. Having the router do this is more reliable and doesn't require any configuration.
This is simple stuff, but it actually takes years to realize how it all fits together. Hope this helps.
Why the two routers? Can the machines from 1.1 see the machines in 2.1? If so, a lot of your work is already done. Where are those client machines getting their DNS settings from? That's the second big chunk of the work. – Bart Silverstrim – 2011-09-15T19:18:21.747
I'm not sure at what point you're stuck here. Give it a static IP and tell everyone to add that IP and "thishouse" to their hosts file. – DerfK – 2011-09-15T19:18:57.100
Thank you Chris for migrating it. @Brat I was told that the guy who did this network doesn○t have wifi and he thought non-wifi router would be better and cheaper than one more long cable from the middle floor. People connected to bottom router somehow can't see people on the upper one. – kovike – 2011-09-15T19:30:18.977
You don't want this available outside the network (ie: to the Internet) correct? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2011-09-15T19:33:28.883
You mean router, or switch, @kovike? – Bart Silverstrim – 2011-09-15T19:35:01.110
1I'm at a loss for why you have two routers complicating things. A couple of switches and one router should do, and would cut down on your headaches, depending on how many machines you're talking about here. – Bart Silverstrim – 2011-09-15T19:35:41.997
It is router. But afaik it can function as switch too, right? And it shouldn't be accessible from outside, yeah. – kovike – 2011-09-15T19:45:43.923
...what kind of "router" is it? – Bart Silverstrim – 2011-09-15T20:02:43.363
TP-LINK TL-R402M – kovike – 2011-09-15T20:13:51.403