Creating a simple "service" web page on your mesh node, any errors here?

Wanting to place this on my node as an advertised service web page, but before I eat up the flash memory on my node, would like to know if there are any errors below, TIA.  This is for newbies not familiar with computer work.  Like hardware weenies like me...

If you want to give people visiting your mesh node access to one or a few simple http web pages, and don't want to go to the trouble of building a web server out of a PC, you can write them up and store them in the /www directory in the flash memory of your node. Do be aware that you can't change these files without flash memory waste (as a deleted file still ties up the memory space used to store it). A web page announcing club meetings that has changing information would be a poor choice (unless you can write the html code to refer to information stored elsewhere, like in RAM memory). But small web pages that never change will work fine. Things like how to build yet another Jpole, hints and mods, tables of coax data, pictures of your pets, and such. As flash memory is limited, you want to keep any image files as small as practical, without sacrificing clarity of information. See if the same image file is smaller but clear enough as a gif vs a jpg file, for example.

You should set up a folder on your PC where you do the writing and editing of the html file, along with the image files you intend to use in the web page. Test the html code with your Firefox or whatever browser while it's in that folder in your PC until you have it the way you want it, without misspelled words or html codong errors and such. If you did this in the node's flash memory, each edit and save wastes flash memory, as all the old versions tie up flash memory forever until you do a hardware node reset (which wipes the node of everything setting it back to default).

Once you have it fully polished, use a program like SmarTTY to SSH into your node. SmarTTY has a feature, SCP, that allows you to upload files right into the node's flash memory. Once you are logged in, do a

cd /www

(don't forget the / else it doesn't find the www directory). Then do a ls and you should see something like this:


To upload a file to this directory you mouse up to the SCP selection on the SmarTTY window's task bar up top.

Okay, now you should be able to see the new web page by entering for example http://192.168.1.251:8080/jpole.htm into the URL spot of your browser. In this example I set the WAN of my node to 192.168.1.251 as a static address. This is also where the above SmarTTY program found it. Assuming this works, then you need to go to the setup page of your node, and select the "Port Forwarding, DHCP, and Services" page.


In the "port forwarding" section, I set "interface" to both, "type" to both, "outside port" to 8080 (which is the http port), "LAN IP" to localnode, and "LAN port" to what I used for "outside port", 8080. (if you have deep understanding of this stuff, you could make better selections here). :-) Click "Add"

Under "advertised services" for "name" type in something you want your service to be called when someone does a "mesh status" on their node, and see your node and your service. Some short descriptive title. Check the link box, and type "http" in the box immediately to the box's right. The URL should show ://yournode'sname: and another box, where you write 8080 into. Then in the last box you write the name of the html file you wrote. Then click "Add" and then click "save changes" near the top of this page.

You may have to do a reboot of the node. After that, go to "mesh status" and you should see, at the top, under "Local hosts", your advertised service. You should be able to go to it when you click this link. And other hams on the mesh network you're a part of should see and be able to click it as well.