Posted by Marsel on 09/28/38 11:40

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:11:21 +0100, "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote:

>Marsel wrote:
>
>> Another question, not sure where to post it, so I'll try here:
>> Now that the site is up and running I would like to see it on the web (not locally,
>> because some pages are integrated on 3rd party pages).
>> This does not seem possible through the router, only when I establish a new
>> modem connection. Firewall confusion? Any fix?
>
>If you run a firewall on the machine with the Apache running, you need to open
>port 80 (for TCP packages). For router you need to see to port forward port 80
>to the machines on which Apache is running (see your route documentation).
>
>
>See to not bind to an ip-number in your apache configuration, as if you do
>this, apache will wait for connections only on that ip-number and refuse those
>forwarded from the router as these will have the external ip-number in the
>HTTP-requester. Binding to an ip-name is okey, as long as it points on the
>apache server on itself in the hosts file and that the external DNS points at
>your public ip-number.
>
>
> //Aho

Thanks, but that does not seem to be it.

There is no firewall on the Apache server, and the router forwards port 80
correctly.
Apache is set to listen on port 80 with the line "listen 80" in httpd.conf.
Everything runs ok from a modem connection or when accessed from
anywhere outside my local network. Thus *you* should be able to see
php setup at http://exxelan.com/phpinfo.php, but *I* am not...
The browser attempts to open the correct ip-number, but after a while reports
"Cannot find server or DNS Error".

//Marsel

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