I want to run my web site from my own computer, or atleast share my files. I have installed Apache and tested it. But I don't know what to do next. I have a private IP that starts with 10.X.X.X and when I log on to my ISPs server I get a different IP each time that starts with 221.X.X.X . So can anyone please explain what I should do, so that anyone can access the site or files in my computer by typing in a domain name. I hope you understand my question.
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first of all,, you need to know that you have Dynamic ip internet connection\n\nfor an website to be accessible to all everytime..it should be on a permanent ip\n\nso to overcome this problem we have dns vendors\n\nsome of them are free[few have unreliable service] and paid dns service.\n\nyou sign up with them...they take in your DYNAMIC ip and giveout a static ip for you site, which will be accesible throught out the world any time\n\nsearch google for the keywords "DNS Service"\n\ngood luck
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And it may be handy to get a dynamic DNS address from dynip or some other such dynamic dns provider.\n\nOR you could get a static IP address from your internet provider and get a REAL DNS entry that points to that IP address.\n\nApache is a good way to go.  Well worth learning too.  There is lots of documentation on the web (see google or something) on how to install it.  I have installed apache before, and just use search engines to find good guides that walk me through it.
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Continued from IIS 5.1 - Installation \nIn order to go configure your website, you need to go:  \n\nStart -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Internet Information Services \n\nIt's a good idea to make a desktop shortcut to Internet Service Manager since we'll be playing with it a lot. \n\nDouble-click on "Internet Service Manager" and let's get started.  \n\nClick on the name of your computer to see the summary of what's going on with your computer.  In my case, my computer is called "DELL-500SC". Double-click on "Web Sites" in the right pane.  You'll see this: \n\nYou can disable a particular service (Web, FTP, or SMTP) by right clicking on the service and choosing "pause" or "stop".  \n\nYou'll notice under "IP Address" it says "All Unassigned"  This means that all requests to your server will be answered by your computer.  If for some reason your server has several IP addresses, you will want to specify the exact IP address that the Internet Services is supposed to respond to.  \n\nIf your computer only has 1 IP address, we can leave the IP address as "All Unassigned".  \n\nLet's take a look at the Web Service.  Right click on "Default Web Site" then select "Properties".  \n\nSince there are so many options I'll just hit the major points. \n\nTab: Web Site  \nDescription - Can be changed to your liking  \nIP Address - Can leave as "All unassigned" or the specific IP address of your computer.  \nTCP Port - 80 is the standard and should remain that way unless you have a good reason to change it.  \nConnections - Although it doesn't say so, we are limited to 10 concurrent web connections.  Each visitor creates 2-3 connections so this means your webserver using this software is limited to 3-4 concurrent visitors which should not be a problem for a small website.  \nTab: ISAPI Filters \nTab: Home Directory  \n\nLocal Path - This is where your files for your website reside.  Please change this to something else.  Many hackers will attack the default directory.  You can change this directory to whatever directory you like, but DO change it.  \nWrite - Unless you want your visitors to actually change your website, you must leave this unchecked.  \nDirectory Browsing - If you check this box, When a visitor comes to a directory that does not have a default document, the visitor will see an error message stating that they are not authorized to view the contents of that directory.  If you uncheck this box, they will get a complete list of what files you have in the directory.  It is best to leave the box unchecked.  \nTab: Home Directory  \n\nLocal Path - This is where your files for your website reside.  Please change this to something else.  Many hackers will attack the default directory.  You can change this directory to whatever directory you like, but DO change it.  \nWrite - Unless you want your visitors to actually change your website, you must leave this unchecked.  \nDirectory Browsing - If you check this box, When a visitor comes to a directory that does not have a default document, the visitor will see an error message stating that they are not authorized to view the contents of that directory.  If you uncheck this box, they will get a complete list of what files you have in the directory.  It is best to leave the box unchecked.  \nTab: Home Directory  \n\nLocal Path - This is where your files for your website reside.  Please change this to something else.  Many hackers will attack the default directory.  You can change this directory to whatever directory you like, but DO change it.  \nWrite - Unless you want your visitors to actually change your website, you must leave this unchecked.  \nDirectory Browsing - If you check this box, When a visitor comes to a directory that does not have a default document, the visitor will see an error message statin
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You will need to do the following to host your website from your home:\n\n1. Get a Broadband connection with Public Static IP address. (Static IP given by ISP is not enough. It must be public IP)\n\n2. Setup a Web server. Either IIS on Windows or Apache on Linux.\n\n3. Host your website by setting up appropriate Virtual directory.\n\n4. Use a Service like Dynamic DNS to make sure your Domain name resolves to your Static IP (Provided by your ISP)\n\nAll the best. Let me know when its done so i can take a look as well!
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what is happening is that your router is sharing your PCs ip address , that's why your Internet domain server is confused and van not assign the same ip address to both PC and router. what you need to do , is to manually assign the ip address to your router\nfollow this\nhttp://corz.org/comms/hardware/router/static.ip.address.php\n\nthen it should be OK.\nhope that helps
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Hi probalby no help but I can get to www.ezboard.com fine. I would suggest maybe a few things that are pretty basic and you may have already tried. First do you use a proxy to access the internet. From Internet Explorer go Tools, Internet Options, then on the connection tabs then look at the LAN settings (if you are on Wirless DSL). If there is anything in there then your computer is going through a proxy before reaching the internet. The issue could be caused by that.\n\nAlternatively sometimes ISP's will block an IP range if they suddenly get loads of spam, but it can be a nightmare trying to talk to someone from most ISP's that will look into it.\n\nTwo other things you can do... if you can get to your command prompt (Dos Prompt) normally under start menu, accesories.\n\nType ping www.ezboard.com \nit will then try to send packets to the server - if this works and comes back with response times it may not be your ISP after all but something in your browser.\n\nWhen you ping it it will say something like pinging www.ezboard.com (nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn) where the number in the brackets is the IP address of the server.\n\nIf that works try typin tracert nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn where nnn is the number in brackets from your ping. This will then show all the steps the packet is taking. Interstingly when I tried this it kept failing at a 64.125.nnn.nnn - it kept going around in circles before timing out.\n\nAnysort of information like this is useful to give to your ISP.
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Your first step is to find an ISP that will provide you with a dedicated IP address and the bandwidth you will need.\nOnce you have that in place, you register your domain name.\n\nHere is some additional information:\nhttp://www.internetplanners.com/dedicated_ip_address.html\nhttp://philip.greenspun.com/panda/server\nhttp://www.dslwebserver.com/\nhttp://www.diywebserver.com/
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Basically, you cannot.\n\nYou may have a few options though.\n\nIf your ISP assigned you a static IP, you are pretty much out of luck.  You can try calling them and asking them nicely for a new one.\n\nIf you are DHCP, you are at their mercy.  You can try unplugging you modem (DSL, cable, etc...) for a while and then plugging it back in.  It may find you a new IP to use, it may not.  It depends how they have their network setup.\n\nIf you are IP banned on a web site or something.  You can actually search google for free proxies.  Setup one of them in your internet browser and it will actually hide your real IP for the proxies IP.\n\nIf you are trying to change it on a local network.  You will need to right click on Network Neighborhood (Windows 9x/NT/ME) or Network Places (Windows 2k/XP) and select properties.  From there, right click on the lan connection and select properties.  Select the TCP/IP and select properties.  From there, you should navigate to the tab that has information about the actual IP.  If it is set for DHCP, you can actually for to a command prompt (Windows NT/2k/XP -> Start | Run and type 'cmd') and in there type 'ipconfig /release' and then 'ipconfig /renew'  If there is no DHCP, you can change the IP in the section also.  I would keep it on the same subnets though, so if the IP is 192.168.0.1, change it to 192.168.0.10 or something like that.  Not 192.168.1.1, because it will not be seen by other PCs and setting up the subnets to talk to each other can get tricky.\n\nIf you are using linux, in a command shell, just type 'ifconfig eth0 <IP Address>' and it should change.  If it is DHCP, you can actually just type 'ifconfig /down' and then 'ifconfig /up'
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Yahoo Domains simply gives you a domain, but you'll have to find a computer (known as a server) to host it on.  The server would most likely be your computer, meaning whenever anyone went to your website, they would be accessing files on your computer.  This means that whenever you want your website to "work", you would need your computer to be on.  Yahoo Webhosting gives you a domain and space on a server to host your files on for your website.  I would HIGHLY recommend Yahoo Webhosting.
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I suggest Red Hat Fedora Core 4 OS.\n\n"ISPs in the area have all been "Shell access? Go away, please," for years."\n\nTrue and they should be if they care about the security on their shared-use servers.  I suggest to go with a dedicated or virtual-dedicated server.  Virtual-dedicated is a new technology out there that allows the affordability of a shared server with the useability of a dedicated server.  Admin access allows you to have root level access and install and run virtually anything on the server.\n\nSee the Virtual Dedicated hosting offer here http://www.xmlwebhost.com/web_hosting.php
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ermm.. no, it will never work. It is a private address, asigned to your computer to identify it within your network.\n\nTo find out your public ip,  go to run, cmd, ipconfig/all\n\nif not, just go to www.whatismyip.com\nGood Luck
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Not sure why you want to do that. Isn't it easier to let computer Y get internet access directly from the router? But if you insist to do it, first of all you must run in.routed on computer X, then configure eth1 using nonpublic network number, something like 192.168.0.0 or 10.0.0.0. Say let X have  10.10.10.1 and Y have 10.10.10.2 and you must set the default router on Y to use 10.10.10.1. The routed will let X to behave as a route for Y.  I wouldn't recommend this setup, unless you are trying to setup X as a firewall or a content filter for computer Y.\n\nHave fun!
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Not only is Apache free and open source, the OS it runs on is free and open source as well.  There is a vast amount of information on the web on how to setup Apache on Linux (pick your distribution) using PHP as the server-side scripting language, and MySQL as the database back-end.  However, if you're looking to go this direction, I would suggest you study up so you will obtain some familiarity with Linux before delving into Apache.  If you prefer to use .NET development tools, Mono will run on Apache to provide .NET functionality.\n\nAdmittedly, my experience is that IIS is "easier" to setup than Apache, especially for someone new to Apache (understandably), but not overly so.  Contrary to what some answerers feel here, Linux is not considerably difficult to use, especially if you have any experience with DOS, or any Unix-based O/S.\n\nWhichever way you go, make sure you cover as many websites as you can regarding how to "harden" your webserver to minimize the risk of hacking.
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Well, the answer is quite technical, so I hope I don't confuse you too much. Basically, the answer has to do with how the computer decides WHERE www.mosaicretail.com is actually located on the internet.\n\nEvery computer that's connected to the internet has what is called an IP address. (IP stands for "internet protocol".) An IP address is like the internet equivilant of a telephone number -- whenever one computer needs to send data to another computer, it contacts the other computer using its IP address. (An IP address looks like a series of numbers seperated by periods, for example 124.34.25.52)\n\nWhen you enter a website address such as www.mosaicretail.com, your computer must first find the IP address of the computer hosting the website before it can contact it. To do this, the computer first contacts what is called the DNS, which stands for Domain Name Service (or Server, or System). A Domain Name is an address such as yahoo.com or mosaicretail.com. You will often see the term used by web hosting sites that allow you to have your own "domain", e.g. your own web address like www.yourwebsite.com. The Domain Name Service takes the domain name like mosaicretail.com and looks up the correct IP address, which is in this case is 63.66.49.131.\n\nHere's a trick: if you know the IP address of the server you want to connect to, you can enter that in the web address bar. For example, try entering http://207.171.175.29 instead of http://www.amazon.com.\n\nNow, in the case of mosaicretail.com, the error message you see ("Unable to determine which web page to re-direct you to. Please re-check your URL and try again") is actually NOT a problem with your web browser. The web browser correctly looks up the IP address of mosaicretail.com (63.66.49.131), contacts the web server and displays the information. The error message you see is actually what some dufus put up as the web site! (I'm not making this up.)\n\nNow, in addition to the "primary" Domain Name (such as amazon.com or yahoo.com or mosaicretail.com), a website can have what are called sub-domains. A sub-domain is a part of the web address that goes BEFORE the "primary" domain. Yahoo! uses a lot of subdomains, for example, my.yahoo.com uses a primary domain yahoo.com and a sub domain my. There are also answers.yahoo.com and search.yahoo.com and music.yahoo.com and messenger.yahoo.com and so forth. In each case, the primary domain is yahoo.com and the sub-domains are answers, search, music, and messenger, respectfully.\n\nIf you understand this so far, you probably understand that nearly every website on the internet has a sub-domain called www. Thus, mosaicretail.com is the primary domain but has a sub-domain of www which you access by typing www.mosaicretail.com. Get it?\n\nHere's where all this comes around to answer your question (finally!). A sub-domain can be registered to any IP address, just like a primary domain. For almost every website on the internet, the www sub-domain will be registered to the same address as its primary domain (so that, for example, typing amazon.com and www.amazon.com will do the same thing). However, this is not ALWAYS the case. A sub-domain could be registered to a DIFFERENT IP address than the primary domain. Your website does this. mosaicretail.com is registered to IP address 63.66.49.131, which returns the stupid webpage that you encountered. However, it's www sub-domain is registered to a different IP address, 63.77.193.10, and is thus a different web server altogether, which appears as www.mosaic.com\n\nIn conclusion, if a sub-domain is registered to a different IP address than the primary domain, then if one of the IP addresses doesn't work (e.g. the server is down or whatever) then one address will return an error while the other still works.\n\nI really hope that makes sense.
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mainly because you didn't enable the "virtual host" or alike and/or you haven't open port 80 (HTTP port).\n\ntry this:\n\n•if you are on a LAN set a static IP for your computer, you can do this by edting Networking Properties\n\n•enable virtual server and/or port forwarding in you router, choose both UDP and IP, enter port 80 as it's port and enter your static IP as private IP.\n\n•enter your DDNS settings in the WAN setup\n•reboot your router\n•check the dyndns address you have...\n\ndifferent routers have different settings to enable you local web server to pass through the router, some router don't have virtual server on their NAT setting or no need to setup its virtual server, for this type you must only add a public port (port 80) to run a webserver, some router requires more than opening a port, like what i am using, first i set my computer to a static IP, enable port forwarding, enable virtual server, open port 80, add s specific private IP, and set my dyndns setting or no-ip setting..\n\njust play around your router's settings and don't forget to reboot it everytime you made changes..\n\nhere is my local webserver for proof:\nhttp://dikkiscybercafe.dyndns.org\n\nif page cannot be displayed it means my computer is off..
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There is a web hosting server, which has got different virual folders setup as websites...more like a schema...those folders are locked with a referenced IP address. So when you type in the website address...DNS reosloves the name to the IP address...and gives you the website to  your browser!\n\nHelps??
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First, make sure that your server is running.\nGo to URL: http://localhost\nThen, make sure you saved your files into c:&#92;inetpub&#92;wwwroot\n\nBTW: Why you use FrontPage? Not all webservers support it. I suggest you to use DreamWeaver, then use PHP or ASP.