Okay, so what I want to do is be able to control certain aspects of my application from anywhere on a LAN, through a website. Mainly to download log files.
Could anybody point me in the direction I need to be going please.
Basically, the application would be downloaded, then installed. When launched the application would be running, which would also ‘host’ a web interface, so log files can be downloaded easily on other devices, and simple commands can be sent with html forms.
What I am having a hard time doing is making the os x /ios application host my html files, so that they can be accessed at 192.168.x.x/*.html. And viewed by other users of the LAN.
The interface is very simple and would be mainly sending html forms and downloading log files.
You’ll need to embed HTTP server functionality in your app. There is a multitude of ways to do this, and which one you want to use depends heavily on your needs. For example, I found this tutorial straight away.