Ok, I have had further time to search in the FAQ's and archives here and the learning curve seems a bit steep for me -- I am not a network or unix guru by any way shape or form .

But looking around in these docs a bit futher imply that for me to make my zen-cart website appear remotely from my iMac I need to alter the config.php files to have the http and https use the local ip address of my machine assigned by my router? (Correct me if I am wrong or just plain confused which i could be ) Not my local host address of 127.0.0.1?

The router assigned ip number (is that the LAN? I am at work and cannot look at my router config files at moment) is some 198.168.x.x number. Right now to make Zen-Cart work smoothly and not load slowly on local host I have the two config.php files set to point to the 127.0.0.1:80 address. Using localhost or mymachinename.local work but the local version runs very slowly so I had found I needed to set the config.php with the ip address which I guess has to do with how Apache works (as surmised by purusing lots of docs now).

So from one case I found in the archives what I will try when I get home tonight is to go to the config.php files and change the path information for directory, virtual HTTP, Virtual HTTPS Sever, and Virtual HTTPS path from 127.0.0.1:80 to my router assigned ip of 198.168.x.x for the machine (the LAN or WAN). I think that Apache by default is set to port 80 so I will keep the passthrough I setup in my router for 198.168.x.x, port 80.

Then when i try my dynamic DNS URl from dyn.com that I use with my mac and my isp broadband host I am hoping that I get more than the startup screen with misformated text only (no graphics) that fails beyond the first screen. (I HOPE!!!! )

So I will try this and report if it works but let me know if you see a flaw in my plan.

Russ Jacobson