How to do Web Hosting

[hunghsun]

Hi,

I am trying to figure out how to turn my PC into a webserver. Below are the spec of my system.

1. Cable modem (Linksysm) and it's hook to the 4 port router (Linksys)
2. 1 Desktop and 1 laptop hook to 2 of the 4 ports on the router.
3. Have IIS/Installed on Desktop. when i use

http://192.168.1.2/

I see the sample page i created, but when i typed in

http://localhost/

i get error 404 (page not found)
4. I've ask some friends to type in the external IP address and they got nothing (time out).

My questions now are
1. How do I get

http://localhost/

to point to work?
2. How do I let my friends see my pages? (i.e. hosting)

Please let me know as much as you can, appreciate your help in advance.

Hung-Hsun Su

 

[FaiTHLeSS]

For people to access your page externally you will need to forward port 80 on your router to the IP of the Host machine of the webserver, some ISP block you from running servers though so you might need to put your webserver on a different port. As for localhost not working sounds like something might be wrong with your host file not pointing localhost to 127.0.0.1, try going to a command promp and pinging localhost and see what that does.

hth