Ok done all the research I can, time for some collaboration. New Server apache 2.5
apache running default configuration xampp/htdocs/index.html http://localhost and http://ipaddress works great. outside machines cannot connect to http://ipaddress main gateway and routers have been forwarded from port 80 and port 443 as apache suggests, to the machines ip address. no machines outside the network can connect. Firewalls are temporarily off. is there anything in the httpd file or apache that needs to be changed in order to display a webpage via the web? Jay
