Setting up a webserver.

[Digital-Vortex]

Hey all,

Im trying to make a web server on my network
i have a DynDNS.org account and it points to my IP, but whenever i go to the address or just the IP it times out. i have a linksys router/switch (WRT54G) receiveing the IP of my net, and have turned on port fowarding to the IP of the computer running apache.

Anyone have any ideas why?

 

[TekieB]

what port are you running on? most ISP's block port 80, try changing it to port 8000 or port 8080

 

[ktwebb]

I wouldn't say most do but that is certainly a possibility. Just type in the internal IP into either a browser from another machine on your network or you can type that IP or simply localhost on the local machine to test and see if your webserver is up and running. If one of both work but it's only the external IP, the public IP that times out, then it's likely your ISP is blocking traffic on port 80.

 

[TekieB]

and you can't go to your own public IP from behid the router

ie

if i have a site, local = 192.168.2.2 but public = testsite.org (too lazy for an ip) i can't access testsite.org from the local netowk the server is on but i can do the 192 ip

 

[Digital-Vortex]

well both work for me, local IP, external IP, and address.

Il try changeing the port tho