One benefit of running of our program is that it automatically enables individual/personal decentralized web site of the user.
However there are some pre requisites in order for this decentralized web site to be visible for the world.
When starting the dWeb program for the first time the user has to establish identity based on an e-mail address. You can find more details and information
about identity here -
User identity and inviting other users
Another very important requirement is to have enabled 'inward' type communication. If not familiar with the term please check -
Outward and inward communication
Testing outward and inward IP communication
Enabling inward communication
!!! Important !!!
The e-mail address which is used as an individual identity is serving as the domain name of the decentralized web site of the user.
Other users of the dWeb program can access this domain based on e-mail address from any part of the world.
The whole domain name service (DNS) of the centralized client-server model is replaced by using an e-mail address in our decentralized web site model.
When installed, the dWeb program is placed in the - c:\dweb (Windows), or /home/
There is a 'dwsite' sub-folder - c:\dweb\dwsite (Windows), or /home/
When the dWeb program is started the user can open a web browser and type -
http://localhost:1248
This will pull the 'index.html' file from the 'dwsite' folder and show it in the browser. There are number of additional files loaded - .jpg
image file, and a .mp4 video file.
Here is a list of types of files and file extensions supported in a decentralized site:
- application: "ogg", "pdf", "json", "xml", "zip"
- image: "gif", "jpeg", "png", "tiff","ico"
- text: "css", "csv", "html", "xml","js","txt"
- audio: "mp3"
- video: "mp4", "webm","mov","qt","mpeg4","wmv","flv"
To access a specific file or page type in a web browser for ex. -
http://localhost:1248/about-us.htm
While java script is supported as included in the 'text' type of files, server side scripts like for ex. .php are not supported.
It is recommended that the user modifies, customizes, or replaces right away their initial / default decentralized web site.
As stated above the e-mail address which is used as individual identity is serving as the domain name of the user.
To access the dWeb site of another user on the dWeb platform like for ex. one using the e-mail address - paa12345@yahoo.com , open a web browser and
type -
http://localhost:1248/paa12345@yahoo.com
This will pull the 'index.html' file from the 'dwsite' folder of the user with e-mail address - paa12345@yahoo.com and show it in the browser.
To access a specific file or page of the specific remote user type in a web browser for ex. -
http://localhost:1248/paa12345@yahoo.com/contact-us.htm
The decentralized web site of the user who started the dWeb program is always visible on their own computer system.
An internet user is always participating in 2 networks - local and global network.
Details on these networks are available in this article -
Local and global IP addresses
As stated above a very important requirement is to have enabled 'inward' type communication.
Even if 'inward' type communication is not enabled, the decentralized web site of the user who started the dWeb program is always visible for other users on the
local network.
For example 2 or more users at home or at work will be able to see each other's decentralized web sites.
In order to have the decentralized web site of the user to be visible globally / worldwide the 'inward' type communication has to be enabled.
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