On 27/04/2021 22:33, back Button wrote:
if I type http://localhost/ then I get the apache2 index.html page.
This is the pre installed webserver which came ubuntu 20.
So it looks like you haven't uploaded your index.html page yet to the
root folder of your server.
Now open your httpd.config file and look for:
ServerName localhost:80
Change localhost to:
http://backbtn.ddns.net
Then type your domain name in the browser. It should load the index
page or at least the default apache page. For now at least.
Have you also got access to your router's Admin login details? Because
you also need to enter the details in dynamic tab of the router to make
sure inbound traffic is allowed. If you are on SKY then you might have
a problem because they don't allow inbound traffic for home users but
you might have a different subscription plan so things might be different.
I am on the cheapest plan possible because all the internet work I do
are from the Library (before the lockdown) or from Work. at home I only
do some development work as a hobby.
back.but...@aol.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Brodis <mabro...@colorado4x4.net>
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Sent: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 22:13
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] 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.st...@apache.open.source.it
<mailto:antony.st...@apache.open.source.it>> 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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