Apache Works... (Continued)...

[Gumby001]

Hi again... sorry about taking up your time and space on this forum with newbish questions but... I now have my website working off of WAMP5 that i set up and all the links work correctly. I was wondering how to set my site available to view from other computers... I went to dyndns.org and registered and set up a host url. Now i would believe i woudl have to set the host url directing it to my site... yeah im very confused... help is very appreciated

 

[RhythmAce]

If your server is on a network, forward all http trafic to the servers local ip on port 80. If your server is a standalone box then all you have to do is edit ServerName. If your isp blocks port 80 then change the 'Listen' directive to whatever port you have dyndns using.

 

[RhythmAce]

I'm sure you already know this but you don't use

http://www in

front of the sub-domain name from dyndns. Hence the ServerName will be yourname.dyndns.org where 'yourname' is the name you used for your dyndns account. Just making real sure. ;-)

 

[Gumby001]

Okay i made a host using test.kicks-ass.net ... Now i put this into servername and then leave the :80 for the port... I tried to go to test.kicks-ass.net. Have i done something wrong so far?

 

[smah]

Well, next is to make sure that the DNS settings have propagated correctly. Does this look correct for your public IP address? It seems to trace back to a RoadRunner account in Hawaii (but that may not be accurate).

 

[RhythmAce]

I can ping both the name and ip and they are seeing something. If apache was Listening for all addresses on port 80 it would answer. Even if it was misconfigured as far as the ServerName goes it would serve the default or if that was FUBARed it would display an error page that you would know came from your server. This kind of points the the notion that apache is not seeing the request. It may be that the ip address is wrong or the request is not coming in on port 80.