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Take advantage of the Cisco IOS Web server on your router

I was wondering which models this works on. Does the 2501 have this capability?

Not modular to expand and they just wouldn't have the flash to do what they are talking about.

Also, look at your ios version.

Note: I have seen someone erase the flash before. It isn't pretty. Funny yes, pretty no.

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Versions are always of the test.
Nortel though its peer to know.
Web servers, here we go.
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Yes, you can do this on a 2500 series router. I pasted in, below, a copy of how I did this on a 2511. It should be the same on a 2501. They are the same router, a 2511 just has async ports on it.

I appreciate your comments,
Sincerely,
David Davis
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ccie-termserver#sh ver
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 2500 Software (C2500-IS-L), Version 12.3(12), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Tue 30-Nov-04 02:33 by kellythw
Image text-base: 0x03094EA4, data-base: 0x00001000

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 11.0(10c)XB1, PLATFORM SPECIFIC RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
BOOTLDR: 3000 Bootstrap Software (IGS-BOOT-R), Version 11.0(10c)XB1, PLATFORM SPECIFIC RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

ccie-termserver uptime is 6 weeks, 4 minutes
System returned to ROM by reload
System restarted at 08:18:35 CENTRAL Mon Jan 10 2005
System image file is "flash:/c2500-is-l.123-12.bin"

cisco AS2511-RJ (68030) processor (revision K) with 14336K/2048K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 22798335, with hardware revision 00000000
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
1 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
1 Serial network interface(s)
16 terminal line(s)
32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
16384K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)

Configuration register is 0x2102

ccie-termserver#conf t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
ccie-termserver(config)#ip htt
ccie-termserver(config)#ip http ?
access-class Restrict http server access by access-class
authentication Set http server authentication method
client Set http client parameters
max-connections Set maximum number of concurrent http server connections
path Set base path for HTML
port Set http server port
server Enable http server
timeout-policy Set http server time-out policy parameters

ccie-termserver(config)#ip http ser
ccie-termserver(config)#ip http server ?


ccie-termserver(config)#ip http server
ccie-termserver(config)#ip http path ?
WORD path name for HTML

ccie-termserver(config)#ip http path flash:
ccie-termserver(config)#

I have found this article very interesting and am planning on using the http server in a university project.

I was just wondering which IOS versions the PATH command is included in. I have got several IOS versions but none have the PATH command, they only have ACCESS, AUTHENTICATION, PORT and SERVER commands.

And will it work on any of the following routers:- 1601, 1603R, 1720 or 1721

This will only work if the IP HTTP PATH command is available. I do not know when that was added to the IOS, but you must be able to set the path to point it to your html files for it to work.

You DO NOT need the IP HTTP PATH command to make this work. All that we had to do after using the IP HTTP SERVER command was to disable our school proxy on the computer. You can do this by:

1.Going to tools on you web browser.
2.Click on internet settings.
3.Click on the Connections tab.
4.Click on the Lan settings button.
5.Uncheck the box under the proxy caption and click ok.

This is excellent forum for the new network administrator and provide alot of good information for learning