Web Cam website

[ScubaStevo]

Hi

I want to setup a webcam on a PC and host it on a Windows XP machine. I want to leave the camera running 24/7 so I just need to go the IP address of the machine and view a webpage containing the streaming video.

I have no idea how to do this but i have experience setting up web servers with Apache so if someone could lead me in the right direction that would be gratly appreciated.

Steve

 

[smah]

You might not need apache. Start with the camera software - there might already be something that does this. The camera software will probably be the condition that controls what you can do with it.

 

[NullTerminator]

This isn't really an apache question unless you will be proxying for the camera

Without apache, here's the simple picture
1) Put the camera on a port other than 80, (using camera admin)
2) Tell your router to allow traffic to that port
3) Block port 80 on wan side so people don't get access to your router admin site.
4) get a dynamic dns account and get a name like scubastevo@dyndns.org.
5) in your router setup dynamic dns rules. Varies by brand, LinkSys has very good support for Dynamic DNS
6) Set up a script to keep your router open to the net, especialy with DSL

Usually docs with camera include instructions.

You didn't mention camera brand/ model/ built in webserver, ...

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