another simple question

[Murugs]

I am running apache server in my office and in home when I point my browser to

http://ipaddress

of server I am able to see the default apache page.

But If I say

http://servername

from my home I am not able to get the apache page. But I am able to do from my internal network in office.
How do I get it working from home?

Also instead of loading the default apache page my browser should redirect me to another url. How do I achieve this?

regards
MP

 

[danielhozac]

Is the IP a local IP? That would cause this kind of problem.
Use mod_headers. It's installed by default, so you should have it.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_headers.html

has information about how to use it.
This is what the line would look like:

Header set Location "the url"

Put this in your httpd.conf, .htaccess or whatever configuration file you use. //Daniel

 

[Murugs]

yes your understanding is correct..for our internal netowrk we use a IP which is local.

Also the server goes thru a cisco firewall where we have NAT and the server is assigned a static IP for the outside world.

from my office network I use

http://localip

and

http://servername

it works and from my home I use

http://staticip

it works. This is the set up and now If I want to give some name.com instead of staticip so that I can access from home how do I do that.?

Am I confusing a lot, If yes pls reply and I will try to be more clear.

regards
MP

 

[danielhozac]

You have to buy a domain name from a registrar. Then you can use ZoneEdit.com for DNS hosting or you could host it yourself if you want to using BIND. //Daniel