Your own web server for free !

Thanks for the webserver info, I used to run an FTP server for my mates until I got sick to death with the bandwidth usage. Now I can run an easy website with not much bandwidth being taken away!

[heyyo]

i have installed the abyss server and i can view it locally, but i dont understand how my friends would access the website...what do they connect too, i know i can set up a free cjb.net or no-ip.com account but what IP address do i enter...how do i find out the correct one.

I am using NTL Broadband 300k

[Richard M]

Go to http://www.whatismyip.com/ to see what your external IP is.

[heyyo]

Hi,

currently viewing the website locally its - http://127.0.0.1/
when i go to whatismyip.com i do get an I.P address but how do i direct that to the server. I am also behind a router...do i need to anything additional with that...

thanks

Originally Posted by heyyo

Hi,

currently viewing the website locally its - http://127.0.0.1/
when i go to whatismyip.com i do get an I.P address but how do i direct that to the server. I am also behind a router...do i need to anything additional with that...

thanks

O.K.

you need a domain name that will point to your website. If you have one then all you need to do is update you dns records to point to your external IP address.

Once you have set this up then you will need to map port 80 incoming on your router to the internal IP that your computer is using.

First things first - Do you have a domain name you can use ?

[Richard M]

Originally Posted by heyyo

Hi,

currently viewing the website locally its - http://127.0.0.1/
when i go to whatismyip.com i do get an I.P address but how do i direct that to the server. I am also behind a router...do i need to anything additional with that...

thanks

All you need to do is port-forward any requests on port 80, assuming you are using this port, it could be 8080.
Once you've done that, start up the webserver and replace 127.0.0.1 in your URL to whatever your IP is.

[Stuart W]

Originally Posted by Starsurfer

I know your trying to help and all, but wouldnt you be better of getting all the php stuff and mysql as well, for it to run stably you would need 4-5 computers for a stable setup

I ran a forum using PHP and MySQL on a PII450 with 128M of RAM with no problems at all for a whole year before I transfered to a 'real' server.

I used Apache as my WWW server, with PHP enabled, and a nice FREE install of MySQL for the forums database.

You only need to go for multi-server environment when you are running either a HUGE site which has loads of content (like BBC.co.uk), or lots of sites.

[KingPhoenix]

I would recommend everyone makes sure there copy of PHP is upto date...........

KP

[StarMasseur]

Originally Posted by Stuartbe

O.K.

you need a domain name that will point to your website. If you have one then all you need to do is update you dns records to point to your external IP address.

Once you have set this up then you will need to map port 80 incoming on your router to the internal IP that your computer is using.

First things first - Do you have a domain name you can use ?

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Originally Posted by heyyo

i have installed the abyss server and i can view it locally, but i dont understand how my friends would access the website...what do they connect too, i know i can set up a free cjb.net or no-ip.com account but what IP address do i enter...how do i find out the correct one.

I am using NTL Broadband 300k

[F1Driver]

Hi,
Has anyone managed to get this to work with ntl broadband?
I have a computer setup as a router/gateway between my cable connection and my private network, and I have tried running a webserver on this computer, but I can't view the webpages from the my WAN ip address (currently 80.3.160.7), but it works from the internal ip address of the server (192.168.0.1) (or localhost). A portscan of my external address suggests that port 80 is open.
I also can't get ssh to work over the ntl connection either.
Does anyone know if ntl are blocking ports or useing some other way to stop me running a home webserver?

Any help would be appreciated

F1 Driver

to the forum.

AFAIK you should be able to run a web server. Just to clarify, are you saying you have web server with two network connections, one using DHCP and connected directly to the cable modem (i.e. not via a router), and the other on 192.168.0.1 connected to a local network. You can access the web site on the 'server' as localhost, and from other PCs on your LAN, but not from the 'outside'. What OS are you running? Any firewall software?

[jtwn]

Beware, that whatismyip detects ntl proxies, not your real address.

I find http://www.dslzoneuk.net/ip_checker.php to be quite good.

[F1Driver]

Thank you! (Especially jtwn) I now have the web server working with the correct IP address. I was using the address of the ntl proxy not my computer (I was using www.whatismyip.com)!

JohnHorb you are 100% correct, I had tried with both WinXP/IIS and Linux/Apache, and turned off the firewall (temporarily) to see if that was causing a problem. But it wasn't, it was the proxy.

F1Driver

[Caspar]

Originally Posted by Richard M

Well here you go, I've written this as I go and it's all fully working on WinXP.
Part 2 will come later, it's even easier to install MySQL but get PHP running first, any problem give me a shout

..did you do a Part 2 to this Richard?

[handyman]

Hi rich,

did you ever get round to doing part 2?