Newb - Accessing web server outside of a network

[Bentley22]

I believe this has been asked before, but I couldn't find the answer in the previous posts.

We are running a cable modem, networked between several different systems. I've installed Apache 1.3, and I have no trouble accessing the pages internally on the network. The problem lies in that I can't access it externally. I'm not the host computer, so I have the subnet ip of 192.168.x.x Is there a way to set up the server to come in through to host, go to my system, and serve out the content? Far as I know, there isn't any firewall software running. "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us"
Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

 

[RhythmAce]

Internal ip addresses are not recognized outside of your local network. It works kind of like this. Your machine has an ip which is known only to itself which is 127.0.0.1 and the name associated with that ip is localhost. Then you have a local net ip which is associated with your machine/host name. If you are sharing one external ip then whoever has the authority to edit the dns records can add you as a sub-domain (you.somebodyelse.com)then set his machine (the one you refered to as host) as a server which in turn would resolve to your server. You would have to be setup as a name based virtualhost. Yours would be setup to listen to anything on anyport. The ServerName would be your VirtualHost name.