Change IP Address/Web Sharing

[stefeb]

After many tries I finally got websharing to work with OSX. For some reason I'd forgotten to insert the tilde before my OSX short user name.

When I access my machine from another location, I type in the machine's IP address and get connected. What I notice is that, once connected the IP in the address bar changes to another.

For example - Let's say my machine's IP is 123.123.123.12, well, I'll enter, http://123.123.123.12/~my username. This connects me.

When I look in the address bar the URL has become - http://123.120.0.7/~myusername.

If I now use the changed URL I can still access my machine.

I'm really new at this and would appreciate a simple explanation of why the IP address changes once I have connected to my machine.

Thanks.

[griffman]

How is your machine connected to the Internet? Sounds like something, somewhere, is doing some forwarding of your HTTP requests...

-rob.

[stefeb]

I have a cable modem, and I'm using a Farralon Friendly Wireless router.

I've set the ports on my router to 8080 (read I should do that somewhere).