Public web address for kJams Server

[devwatch]

Dave, on the Server page https://karaoke.kjams.com/wiki/Server you say

If you're hyper savvy
You can put this on a *public* IP address under some domain, and use port 80 (provided there's no other web server on that address). that way people can *from home* enter something like: http://kjams.com:12345/ and then set up their tonight list, before they even get to the venue! isn't that spiffy?

I have been a web developer for 10 years, have several domains I administrate, and I still can't understand what this means. As far as I know, you can put files under a domain. Those files in a public domain get served to web clients that request them by specifying the path to the file they want. That path doesn't have to be an IP address because those get related to domain names by the many DNS servers that facilitate the Web (e.g. 10.100.2.28 => foo.net/karaoke). So when you say put "this" on an IP address under a domain... what is "this", and how does that translate into getting the local kJams server on my computer connected to my website's domain? Am I way off track, or just totally confused?

[dave]

"this" is kJams. kJams *IS* a web server. The only reason i have ":12345" in the URL above is because i already have a web server running on port 80 on the "kjams.com" domain. if i did not, i *could* run kJams on port 80, then i would not have to add the :port.

how do you get your domain to point to your local computer? that's the part where you have to be hyper savvy. you can create a VPN on your server, then login to the VPN from your local computer, and also run NAPT on your server, forwarding requests to your local computer.

[devwatch]

Interesting! I wonder if people have tried this and what Mac software they used for the VPN and NAPT.

[dave]

VPN and NAPT are built in to an XServe. that's what i use.

[Fiasco]

Just use dynamic dns and port forwarding.

[dave]