I'll take a stab at this and see if there is someone more knowledgeble than I by the other replies seen. I think the problem is... a typical home DSL/Cable modem setup doesn't allow (I don't think) the forwarding of inbound traffic of port 80 (normally www port) from the DSL/Cable Modem to the destination machine. Which keeps everybody in the outside world (even if they knew your current IP address) from viewing your web pages. If that's the case, then the remedy would be to go to the local store and get a DSL/Cable router that'll you'll use to replace the standard DSL/Cable modem that the phone or cable company has provided you. With a DSL/Cable router (technically, you can also take an old PC that has three network cards and put IP Cop on it and do the same thing) you'll be able to have a firewall capabilities that will keep intruders out, and you'll be able to configure the router part of the device to forward port #80 traffic to a specific machine on your home network. Another possibility is that your provider might not allow inbound traffic to your part of the internet because then that would signal to them you are running a server. Which would normally mean more $$$ for them to assign you a static IP and higher bandwidth that a server really needs. They'd rather have you as a business (or small office customer) because that means more $$$ for them instead of the lowly domestic residential rates. That's my try... anybody else... or am I all wet? Tyler Nally alun phillips wrote:
Hi - I'm a newbie here, so loads of apologies before I make a complete fool of myself. Apache 2.0 Windows XP Pro Cable internet access - always on I am trying to set up my home computer so that my friends and family can view photos of my kids that I have put together in a website on my computer. I have installed Apache2, and http://localhost/ successfully brings up the apache web server welcome page, as does http://XXX.XXX.XX.XXX (my IP address). I have worked out how to replace this page with a page of my choice, but I am unable to get anyone else access to the page over the internet (which I assume is possible). I have a laptop connected to my computer on a home network, and that can reach the page via my IP, but no one else can. I have disabled my Windows Firewall in an attempt to get it to work, but with no luck. I am sure it is something very simple, but I can't figure it out. If anyone has some advice, or can point me to some step by step instructions somewhere on the internet, that would be great. Cheers, Alun --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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