The Opera Unite Webserver isn't designed for full-scale production web serving on major traffic sites. It's meant to make it really easy for people to share their own stuff, without having to worry about getting a domain name, setting up the configuration, managing ports and firewalls and a remote copy of your content on the server and so on.
But it isn't completely stupid either. There are a few things that even simple users might decide they want (I know, because I did), that can be set using
opera:config. The preferences that affect Opera Unite are grouped as "
Web Server", and this is just a couple of the cool ones.
Please remember that this is based on the experimental version, so check the real documentation when the final version comes out.
For those who have never used opera:config to set preferences before, it's not that hard.
Preferences are listed by various topics, and there is a link that will take your Opera browser to that particular preference (for you, on your computer). You can change the value, then at the bottom of each section is a button called "save" - you need to save the new preference for it to take effect. Sometimes you will need to restart Opera, too, but sometimes it will take effect straight away.
The preferences that affect Opera Unite are grouped as "
Web Server", and this is just a couple of the ones that make cool things simpler.
"Throttle" the connectionYep, you
can decide how much data you want to upload. If you set this to 0 (as it is when you first install), there is no limit, but you might decide that you don't want to let more than, say, 20kb be transferred per second. (I chose that because it is the value I use for the equivalent preference to make sure BitTorrent doesn't eat my household internet connection). It's pretty simple - set to 20, then save it.
PortBy default, the web server listens to (i.e. sends content through) port 8840. If you don't know what that means, you needn't worry. But if you do know, you might be pleased to learn first that you can connect to your webserver at
http://localhost:8840/ and even more that you can change it to run on a different port, like 80 (the default for the Web, and the one that browsers try to connect to unless you tell them something different).
Do Not Use Opera AccountThis is where the previous option gets interesting. If you select this, you still have to log in to start the service (this is an experimental version, remember? It's actually to let the Opera Unite system know that you are the service owner). But after that, the operaunite.com proxy will not recognise that your server exists, and your connections will not go through it. If your computer already has a domain name, it will respond to that, or to your IP address.
That will be the only way to get to it while you have this option set. The service provided by the proxy, of giving you a domain name getting requests to you from users who couldn't normally find you, and providing those people with the stuff you want to share, will be turned off. You might want to do this for privacy, or so people can't see that you are running a service, or for any other reason. We don't mind - we just made it an option that you can choose.
As you will see, there are other things there too. If you are experimenting, you can play with them... and there is a default button to restore anything to its original value (without changing any other setting) if it does something unexpected.
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