Hi

I have a pc at home running apache web server. I have a static ip address and i have a netgear router. I have the no ip stuff installed on my pc with the webserver, but i don't know to make it so that people on the internet can see it. computers on my network can see this site but not people outside. what can i do?

also, how do i edit my index page? i can't find the file any where in my computer at home so what can i do there?

thanks in advance.

It sounds like your router needs configuring. You need to port forward all incoming traffic to your server.

how do i do that?

I am not sure how the netgear router is configured but you need to point your netgears port 80 requests to the webserver where your site is located. If there is a port forwarding facility on your netgear you might as well do that...



so everytime a visitor visits your ip address, like this http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is your statid ip, your negear should forward this request to the internal ip address in your home netword. for example if your webserver is configured at 192.168.1.100 then forward all requests to port 80 to 192.168.1.100

i hope i made sense a bit hehe

yes, that makes a ton of sense thank you. now i just need to install windows server, or apche i'm not sure.

the fastest test is using the default IIS (Internet Information Serices) provided with several windows product. If not installed I think you can use windows components and re-install that easily from there.

Windows XP Professional, Windows 2K, Windows 2K3 all have these. I'm not sure if Windows XP Home Edition supports this. If you have a windows 2000 box, it would be easier. This way you can easily play around the IIS yourself, ad several pages etc.

You may also install PHP over IIS and make IIS able to read php scripts.

I would recommend using Apache. Being the hoster of 90% of the servers, it's probably pretty good. It's also really easy to setup. Install it, follow the documentation of course, and then edit the httpd.conf file to point it to the directory where you website resides.

And then mess with the router to make it do what you want with Virtual Servers.

Okay, where is this file at? I've tried and tried to look for it everywhere but I can't seem to find it.

On Linux file systems, this file is usually located in /etc/apache. I'm not so sure about Windows filesystems. If the Find command doesn't show up with anything, I would say you need to reinstall Apache. (Maybe there's a special option you need to include the httpd.conf file)

uh i dunno if this is the same for netgear buty on my linksys i can go into "port forwarding" and route all HTTP (port 80) traffic to my web servers I.P.