From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 21 12:20:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 612F516A56A for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:20:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.net (outbound04.telus.net [199.185.220.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE4543F3F for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:20:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from viktorlazlo@telus.net) Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([66.183.123.52]) by priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.netESMTP <20031021192010.CFDI28962.priv-edtnes27.telusplanet.net@[192.168.1.100]>; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:20:10 -0600 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:19:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Viktor Lazlo X-X-Sender: viktorlazlo@njamn8or.bc.hsia.telus.net To: Micke P In-Reply-To: <20031021184148.76057.qmail@web14502.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20031021121623.V51615@njamn8or.bc.hsia.telus.net> References: <20031021184148.76057.qmail@web14502.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to see website from the Internet X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:20:11 -0000 On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Micke P wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm having all kinds of trouble trying to get things > set up to see my website on the Internet. I know > people like to claim to be newbies, but I actually am. > :-) > > My machine (ethernet card) IP is 192.168.254.25 and > I'm serving on port 8080. I can bring up the site no > problem on my LAN- http://192.168.254.25:8080/, but > not outside. > > My ISP is earthlink and it's a dynamic IP account. > Right now the WAN IP is: 68.164.84.178. Trying > http://68.164.84.178:8080/ doesn't work. I've opened > the port, 8080, on the router. > > What should I look at to solve this? I have > unsuccessfully scoured the complete freebsd book, > handbook, and archives. But haven't found anything to > address this specific problem yet, although it seems > straightforward. If you think I don't understand > networks exactly, you are correct; but it's not for > lack of trying. I'm assuming since you say you can view it at http://192.168.254.25:8080/ that you've told apache to listen to port 8080--have you also entered your hostname or IP address under ServerName? Cheers, Viktor