Re: [users@httpd] port forwarding and other options for having access to my apache server through the ip address

2019-01-11 Thread John
I'm not sure about your configuration so this might be irrelevant, but try looking at all the moving parts here. For example, since your IP is dynamic, how are you doing address resolution on the Internet? Does your address resolver have the correct real address? Try pinging yourself. If that wor

Re: [users@httpd] port forwarding and other options for having access to my apache server through the ip address

2019-01-11 Thread Jonathon Koyle
The only other suggestions I have are to Verify that your server is accessible from another machine, not blocked by a firewall or only listening on loopback. It isn't likely to be an ISP issue unless they try to restrict you from serving a website... On Fri, Jan 11, 2019, 13:54 Stathis G. Arapost

Re: [users@httpd] port forwarding and other options for having access to my apache server through the ip address

2019-01-11 Thread Stathis G. Arapostathis
well, i have a dynamic ip but this is not my problem. I also portforwarded port 80 before sending current question but I still do not have access. There are some years passed since the last time I port-forwarded apache server and I thought that maybe some additional modifications from apache-serve

Re: [users@httpd] port forwarding and other options for having access to my apache server through the ip address

2019-01-11 Thread Jonathon Koyle
You may also need to look into whether you have a static or dynamic IP address. Many Consumer ISP packages provide dynamic, so the public IP address changes periodically, often a day or two in my experience. Also note this won't be the IP address of your host machine, but the IP assigned to the r

Re: [users@httpd] port forwarding and other options for having access to my apache server through the ip address

2019-01-11 Thread John
Start here: https://portforward.com/technicolor/td5130/ What you need to do is open port 80 (unencrypted http), that is, Internet browsers. Be sure you have appropriate security because you are putting your machine in a hostile environment!If you don't believe that, look at your log after a few

[users@httpd] port forwarding and other options for having access to my apache server through the ip address

2019-01-11 Thread Stathis G. Arapostathis
Dear Sirs / Madams, I was wondering on how I could configure my router and make any other necessary configurations in order to open up my localhost to the web and letting internet users to access my locally stored pages by putting my ip address. I have an old router and no support is available.