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VoodooPad Pro's Web Server

One of the advanced features of VoodooPad Pro is a built in web server to share your document on the internet or your local network. The web server also lets your network neighbors know about the service by broadcasting its availability via Bonjour , making the ability to connect to it super easy.

Starting up the web server:

VoodooPad Pro ships with the web server turned off by default, so to turn it on open up the preferences and choose the toolbar button labeled "Web Server", and click the button labeled "start".

When the server starts up correctly you may click the web address that appears above the stop button. Doing so will open up your web browser and allow you to pick from an open document to browse.

If no documents are listed, read on to learn how to turn on access to a document.

Setting up a document to appear in the web server

By default all documents have the option to appear in the web server turned off. This is to keep you from accidentally sharing sensitive data over the internet.

To turn on web access for a document, bring up the Inspector (via the "View->Item and Document Inspector" menu) and flip on the "Show in local web access" setting under the Document tab.

Problems?

I can view my documents in the web browser, but nobody else can!
It may be that you have a firewall running on your computer. To see if this is the case, open up the System Preferences and look under the "Sharing" preferences.

The tab marked "Firewall" should have the firewall turned off. If it is running, you may create a new setting to allow connections on port 8080 (which is the default port that VoodooPad's webserver runs on). Simply press the "New..." button, choose "Other" for the port name and enter 8080 for the port numbers. For the description enter "VoodooPad Web Server". Now your network neighbors should be able to connect.