Once you have your iGet Mobile personal server up and running on your Mac, it's time to connect to it. You can connect to your personal server from your iPhone, iPod Touch, Windows PC, or other modern web-capable device. (We'll call this the "client device".)
iGet Mobile by default displays the URLs you can use to access your personal server, in the main Status window. You can just use this link. iGet constructs this link by using:
- The port number on which iGet Mobile listens for connections.
- The address of your server. This is the "effective" IP address or hostname. This is the IP address provided by your ISP. Often you may have a router such as an Airport base station that actually owns this address, and forwards incoming connections to your Mac via your private network.
The full Internet URL of your personal server is determined like this:
- "https://" followed by your server's address, followed by a colon (":"), followed by the port number
The "https://" instructs the client browser that this is a secure connection. The address directs the browser back to your Mac, and the colon is the standard way to separate the port number from the address. The client browser then tries to establish a secure connection to that address using that port number. (This is the same way normal web browsing works, except that it's not necessary to enter the port number when using the default port number (80).)
So, for example if your effective IP address is "24.58.156.123" and you were using the iGet Mobile default port number of 55555, your server's URL would be:
https://24.58.156.123:55555
Normally, you don't need to figure this out yourself, however.
Once you have the URL, simply enter that URL in your client device's browser (e.g., Safari on the iPhone, or Firefox on some PC somewhere). You will be prompted for your username and passphrase once the connection is established.
For a thorough step-by-step guide, proceed to the next section.
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