Each network connection on your Server machine has an IP address associated with it, which you can connect to. If the machine is connected to a LAN, then you can connect to the server FROM WITHIN THE LAN by using the IP address of the network adapter that connects it to the LAN. If you want to connect to it from the "outside world", you'll need to use your public IP address. If your server connects directly to the Internet, then it's just the same IP address. If you go through a router or firewall, then you need to find out what the IP address (the public one, not the local one) of the router or firewall. Regardless of how you connect, you can find out your public IP by going to whatismyip.com. Note that if you have a Dynamic IP address (which you probably do), then your ISP can (and will) change your ip address with out any notice. If this is the case and you want to access your system from anywhere, you'll need to use something like dyndns (dyndns.com) to map a [sub]domain name (like alberts_server.homeip.net, or something) to your IP address, and automatically update this mapping when your IP changes. Hope that helps. -Brian On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:23 PM, steve <sfreilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Albert Joseph wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I have a very basic question since I am very new to the Web server world. >> >> I have recently installed Apache HTTP server. I am running a stand-alone (not part of any network) machine on Windows 2000 Professional. When I was installing the server, I was asked for the domain and server names and I didn't know what to answer, so I put "localhost", which turned out to be a good guess. So, I am using http://localhost/ to connect to the Apache HTTP server. Now, I need to connect to the server from a remote machine. What http address should I use ? >> >> Thank you > > > > To access apache installation inside your LAN, just type the IP of the > computer that has apache running from another computer into the address > bar of your browser. find your internal IP by typing ipconfig at a > command line of the computer running apache. > > > > > > > -- > Steve Reilly > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > -- Feel free to contact me using PGP Encryption: Key Id: 0x3AA70848 Available from: https://keyserver.pgp.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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