Re: Re: LAN to WAN access (Apache Users)

I have done this before long time ago.

I purchased a static IP address on that occasion from my broad band supplier.

This time I am doing it using no-ip.com.

I think I am ready for the apache configuration side.

This is the first time so if you guys can help me with this.

Then if it the configuration steps you supply me don't work then I know I have to contact no-ip.com

back.button@xxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Brodis <mabrodis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 22:13
Subject: Re: Re: LAN to WAN access

There are several elements to hosting something with public access from your home, some things are tricky, some are just impossible, depending on your specific situation.

1) You need to know if your Internet access is setup such that your ISP will allow incoming connections to your address, not all do, and not all ISPs give out real public IPs to customers, if you don't have a real public IP, or if your ISP is blocking connections coming to you then that'll be the end of your attempt and it simply won't work because you're not 'on' the internet, you're using the internet for outbound things but your Internet would not be configured to allow incoming connections.

2) If you do have proper access then you can simply setup your home router to route incoming connections on a specific port (e.g. 80/443) to an IP:port address on your local network. That would be enough to technically make it work. What that looks like varies by each firewall/router setup but usually named IP Forwarding or such in the router's web interface.

3) If you want to access your home site via something other than the public IP address then sure you can create a public hostname mapped to your IP address, you can do it statically or with some dynamic DNS, that's all fine, but all that does is put a nice name on your IP...steps 1 & 2 above will still have to be satisfied.

-Mark

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 2:59 PM Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tuesday 27 April 2021 at 22:53:07, 😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:

> On 27/04/2021 21:01, back Button wrote:
> >
> > Please get me to the stage when I can have the index.html page
> > display from the internet

> Load your index.html file to the root of the htdocs folders.

> To test it, just type:
>
> localhost

And, how does this get "the index.html page to display from the Internet"?

I really think the fundamental problem here is that the public IP address is
not routed through to the private address, so requests from the Internet never
reach the laptop which is running the webserver.

Antony.

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