publish site

[Netwrkengeer]

I've just installed PhpTraid, so I have Php, Perl, MySQL, and Apache. I can see my Php/Html pages from

Http://Localhost

or

Http://myIP.0.0.0

, but I can not see the pages from other users machines via myIP, is there a setting I need to change in order to publish my site pages to the internet.

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

Is it the external ip that you are using?

Hope this helps Wullie

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.searchit-now.co.uk

http://www.survivorhelp.co.uk

 

[RhythmAce]

assuming you do have an external ip, did you set httpd.conf to listen for that ip? Once you do then you have to restart apache to get it to read the new configs.

 

[Netwrkengeer]

I got it, thanks.

I have another question. I'm on cable, and I setup an account with

http://www.zoneedit.com

as a DNS, so I could connect my

http://www.address

to my IP, NY Question is if I give them my IP how do they know what subnet I'm on.

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

The following is an example of how those programs work..

1) You have a dynamic IP and you disconnect from the net.

2) You reconnect and your IP has now changed.

3) The program sends the new IP to their servers.

4) Their servers update to reflect this change.

5) Someone requesting your address is now forwarded to your new IP.

This all happens in a tiny amout of time and the program should send out the requests every minute of so.

Hope this helps Wullie

http://www.freshlookdesign.co.uk

http://www.searchit-now.co.uk

http://www.survivorhelp.co.uk

 

[RhythmAce]

It sounds like this brings us back to wullie's question about this being an internal ip address. This time I'm going to assume you have an internal ip since you are asking about finding you on the subnet. Whoever is in control of the router needs to forward all requests to port 80 (http) to your internal ip. Zoneedit wants the external ip of the router. Now if the router is also a DHCP server and gives all the workstations a dynamic ip, then it can still be done but it gets a lot trickier.

 

[Netwrkengeer]

Well, I'm on a cablevision cable modem, where I am it is DHCP, and cablevision does not want me hosting a website so they will be no help. So now what do I need to do?

 

[RhythmAce]

you can do a web search for "portscan" and you should find a few that will scan you ports to tell you if your ports are open or closed. One that comes to mind is at

http://www.securitymetics.com

. If you are running windows, you can download a program from

http://www.portdetective.com

. If your isp is blocking these ports you won't be able to host your own server (unless you pay a few bucks for the service). In most cases, this costs more than having it hosted by someone else. If your ports are open (port 80 in particular), you could use a dns pointer service. dyndns and tzo are just a couple of them. you will have to point zoneedit to their servers, in turn, they will point your domain name to your latest ip address they polled from your machine. I know that this is not quite the answer you were looking for but it's the best I could do.