[MySlowQuietLife]

Hello all!

Ok! Im a complete noob to apache and i realise you probably get alot of this but im realy pleading here.

I recently instaled apach, php and mysql and their great no question! BUT i would like to use my apache to deliver web pages to someones brower.

I realy am stuck on how to configure this. I have a router and im running apache on windows vista buisness.

Please help! My foot comes closer to the harddrive every day!

Thanks.

[Mike0001]

Originally Posted by MySlowQuietLife Hello all! Ok! Im a complete noob to apache and i realise you probably get alot of this but im realy pleading here. I recently instaled apach, php and mysql and their great no question! BUT i would like to use my apache to deliver web pages to someones brower. I realy am stuck on how to configure this. I have a router and im running apache on windows vista buisness. Please help! My foot comes closer to the harddrive every day! Thanks.

There will be something in your router's config pages about DMZ and/or port forwarding. You will need to either put your machine in the DMZ or forward port 80 to your machine.

Beware! You make your machine visible to hackers!

[MySlowQuietLife]

Ok thanks!
I checked out my netgear router and i figured how to forward port 80
The thing is i already have a domain name and i would like to configure apache to this do i need to configure out the httpd.conf file in some way?

Thanks for the reply my foot has started to inch away from the harddrive.

[Mike0001]

Originally Posted by MySlowQuietLife Ok thanks! I checked out my netgear router and i figured how to forward port 80 The thing is i already have a domain name and i would like to configure apache to this do i need to configure out the httpd.conf file in some way? Thanks for the reply my foot has started to inch away from the harddrive.

Ah, well there may be problems then.

Unless your ISP has given you a fixed IP address, you will not be able to do that.

If you do have a fixed address (which is visible on the status page of your router) you go back to wherever you registered your domain name and set it up to redirect to your IP address.

You can stick it in httpd.conf too but not sure if that achieves anything!

[MySlowQuietLife]

AHH ok!
Thanks very much for this mike0001.
How do isee if it is a fixed ip address (would it be under DMZ) and if it is not is there anyway i can change this. Perhaps for free. (im a tight fisted jit).

[Mike0001]

Originally Posted by MySlowQuietLife AHH ok! Thanks very much for this mike0001. How do isee if it is a fixed ip address (would it be under DMZ) and if it is not is there anyway i can change this. Perhaps for free. (im a tight fisted jit).

It will be in your broadband contract.

[MySlowQuietLife]

thanks for the all the help im pretty much there now

[MySlowQuietLife]

Glad im not the only one

Thanks Mike001 got it figured out now. Unfortunatly got to get static ip address but it will be well worth it.

Not a student as such but teaching my self lots of different comp languages i think its great!!!! PHP AND MYSQL RULE!!!!!!!!!! why did i miss this

[CallumUK]

you can create a static IP for port forwading for free. it shows you <Link hidden. Register for free to see this link!>. just choose your rooter and it tells you.

[Mike0001]

Originally Posted by CallumUK you can create a static IP for port forwading for free. it shows you <Link hidden. Register for free to see this link!>. just choose your rooter and it tells you.

With respect, I don't think the author of that article has got the idea of dynamic IP addresses! If my router is assigned address 1.2.3.4 by MyISP and then MyISP assigns the same to yours, and then I make 1.2.3.4 static, we will both have the same IP address, a recipe for chaos. (Not that MyISP would actually approve my static IP anyway unless I paid for it!)

You may get away with it for a while, but sooner or later it will go wrong.

However, the Apache server on the local LAN should be given a static IP so that its port 80 can be forwarded.

[CallumUK]

I know they conflict, when it does you just re-assign a different static IP, I use it for my port forwarding on various programmes.

EDIT

I have been using the same static IP since I set it up 6 months ago and so far no conflict has occured.

[MySlowQuietLife]

Thanks for all the advice.
Ive checked out this free static ip and it realy dosent convince me my isp will provide me with one at hardly no extra cost to any bills im paying already.

[CallumUK]

fair enough, that is easily the best way to do it. But I was just to lazy to ring my ISP. Lol.

[tvbusinesslounge]

Originally Posted by MySlowQuietLife I recently instaled apach, php and mysql and their great no question! BUT i would like to use my apache to deliver web pages to someones brower.

Hi There,

I'm not sure why you are interested to use your machine as a host. Rather buy a hosting package from any hosting company and upload your files to that hosting account, point your domain and that's it .... you are done!

Buying a static ip is more expensive, you have to keep your computer running 24X7, make it hacker proof .... etc.

Trust me ... go for my advice.

Best and cheapest hosting company is <Link hidden. Register for free to see this link!>

[MySlowQuietLife]

Namely because i want to learn all there is about hostin web sites web building, scripting etc been learning for the past 6 months and finding it fasinating.
Starting a buisness aswell and want complete controll over everything (im like that)
i will eventulay buy a dedicated server but i want to start small and progress as i learn (im in it for the long hall).
Using windows at the mo but im learning about linux and will soon be moving over when the time is right.