alun phillips writes: > 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. Your ISP may be blocking the traffic. Keep in mind that it's extremely dangerous to run your desktop home computer as a server. Once you allow the outside world to contact your machine, it becomes very vulnerable unless you've gone to great lengths to secure it against attack. Disabling the firewall is _not_ a good idea. You can run your own server at home, but it should be on a completely separate machine, dedicated to that purpose, with an independent firewall carefully configured to allow incoming traffic only to the server, and not to any other machine. -- Anthony --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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