Setting up a webserver

Hi Supremacy are you trying to access it through your LAN side because that wont work if you use the Wan IP or your dyndns name try to access it remotely
 
gee7022 said:
Hi Supremacy are you trying to access it through your LAN side because that wont work if you use the Wan IP or your dyndns name try to access it remotely
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good point - I had forgotten about that gotcha.

I usually use a second PC with a dial-up connection to test this.

I find that PPPoE dialups do not have this problem, so what you can do, is make a connection to the internet using your router in bridge mode. This circumvents the port forwarding problems. Do the tests, make sure all is well, and then use the router to handle the connections again.
 
Moederloos I just want to ask you a question will the router still do port forwarding to the apache pc when you put it in bridge mode because according to my knowledge it won't?
 
gee7022 said:
Moederloos I just want to ask you a question will the router still do port forwarding to the apache pc when you put it in bridge mode because according to my knowledge it won't?
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The PC doing the "dialing" must be the PC that is the web server.
I run it like this at the moment, because of my setup (using "dialup" ADSL for international traffic and router for local traffic).

I am sure there is software that can handle the routing for you if you need it, but too much PT for me... :)
 
Err, dont my pc on the network have static IPs and are both on ADSL, my APache server root is localhost, how do I test if its working? I only have ADSL as my connection. I did try access it throuh my DYnDNS, http://critical.selfip.com is my dynDNS and it still wont work
 
Supremacy said:
Err, dont my pc on the network have static IPs and are both on ADSL, my APache server root is localhost, how do I test if its working? I only have ADSL as my connection. I did try access it throuh my DYnDNS, http://critical.selfip.com is my dynDNS and it still wont work
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Well, its working on my side so well done. You are up! P.S Whats the password to phpmyadmin? :D
 
nic777 said:
Well, its working on my side so well done. You are up! P.S Whats the password to phpmyadmin? :D
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lol - brute.force

:D

jokes aside, well done on the setup.

one gotcha I had was the following:

using ISDSL - when I pass my 3GB cap, international is a dog. NOW, if you have skype running, and it is set to listen on port 80 as an alternative, and Skype activates before Apache (on boot up), Apache will fail to load. You will need to prevent Skype from listening on 80 (no idea why, not all that interested in finding out, but worth knowing ;) )
 
Lol, its working for u? Meh its not wokring when I type in the URL lol
 
It won't work for you - you're on the wrong side of the router... Complicated to explain, I'm not going to go into that now - but it's normal.

Just browse to the IP or something... or
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\lmhosts <-- add it there to the INTERNAL IP of the box
 
ooops, I access it through http://localhost lol. Thanks for all the help guys, I really appreciate it, can u just tell me though, are you seening sumfin like Critical Graphics when u go to that domain? If so, good.

And does any1 here know about cpanel?

Thanks a lot

Sup
 
Supremacy said:
ooops, I access it through http://localhost lol. Thanks for all the help guys, I really appreciate it, can u just tell me though, are you seening sumfin like Critical Graphics when u go to that domain? If so, good.
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yup
 
Yay, it works, kinda sucks that I ent got cpanel though lol, have to everything manually
 
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