Wesley's Tool-Box

Alright, good news for all those who wanted Korean support on my website.
After wasting a whole day, I have created an up-to-date Korean support for the s9y blog system. It seems to be working okay, although there are a couple of labels that look weird (it's not fixable from my end so I've reported this to the creator of s9y). There is also now a language support drop box on the right. You'll be able to see the site in Korean and read Korean versions of the articles (not all that much atm).

s9y's Korean language pack is outdated and needs to be rewritten from scratch. The website will be gradually getting changes as I update it string by string.

How is it that the English setting is defaulting to ISO-8859-1 encoding...
This corrupts any Korean entries... not good for multilingualism.

As a workaround I simply switched the encoding field in the English language data to UTF-8.
Seems like this is the way to go if the menus are to remain English and have Korean entries intact.

Anyways, I think this should help mark the first successful Korean blog entry.

[Related to: Use Mac as a Web Server]

After setting up a domain name for your website, you might want to change the domain name setting for phpBB and s9y so you can administer them from anywhere.

phpBB

Login to phpBB and click Go to Administration Panel. Re-authenticate and you'll be at the admin page. Click Configuration under General Admin. The first setting should read Domain Name. Enter your domain name here instead of 127.0.0.1 or whatever IP address it had before. Scroll down and press Submit to complete.

s9y

Login via Blog Administration. On the admin page, click Configuration under Administration. Open up Path and find URL to blog. Enter http://domain_name/serendipity/ where domain_name is your domain name and serendipity is the folder where your s9y files are in.

So far, we've got a whole website running phpBB and s9y, and... great... you can connect, login, make a post, etc. But you and you only right now. The website needs to get out of the basement and see the light.

6. Do We Have an Address?

The trusty "System Preferences - Sharing - Services - Personal Web Sharing and see bottom" gig gets you an IP address that your website is accessible from. If you're connecting to the internet directly via dedicated line or a modem (DSL, cable, etc.), you'll see an actual IP address that your website can be accessed from elsewhere on the internet. If that's the case, great. Move to section 7. However, if your Mac is hooked up to a router that relays the internet connection, you'll see an internal (private) IP address such as 192.168.1.32 showing up. The most common one starts with 192.168 but other examples include 172.16 and 10.0. Read this Wikipedia entry for details.