Posted by Toby A Inkster on 05/02/07 08:10

Chuck Anderson wrote:

> I can not remember what prevents his (or my) server from being reachable
> by others on the Internet, and I want to be sure exactly how that
> security works before I install a server on his machine. What is it that
> prevents (how do I prevent) outside access? (He and I are both on
> comcast, btw - always on).

With Apache, you can configure it to listen for requests only on
particular IP addresses. If you configure it to listen for requests only
on 127.0.0.1, then nobody should be able to access it non-locally.

A good firewall wouldn't go amiss either.

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