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Re: Exposing my home website to the internet.

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On 27/09/14 20:41, john@wexfordpress.com wrote:
> I want the capability to mount web pages on my own web server
> (Slackware and Apache) and expose these pages to the internet. My
> local computer has a fixed url address in the 192.168.etc series
> which does not change.This allows me to access my router. My router
> in turn connects to my internet modem which works with my internet
> provider,in my case comcast.net. This latter connection is DHCP I am
> pretty sure.

 > The first question is, how do I sniff out this last internet address?
 > I presume it stays constant until I have a power failure or other
 > interruption, in which case I would have to sniff it out again.


>
> The second question is, given knowledge of this internet address, how
> do I give the outside world access to it?

http://www.noip.com/free

is your friend (and there are many like that - google "Dynamic DNS")

Basically you put a client on your machine that pokes the remote DNS 
server to update a fixed name to your changed public side IP.

> If necessary I can dedicate a spare computer to this function by
> connecting it to my router. I have a port available. This would
> protect may main machine from crashing due to overload.

In either case, you'll need to have a router that you can either do port 
forwarding or DMZ (full IP forwarding) to send new incoming packets 
(where not already part of another connection) to your internal machine 
of choice, which will run your web server.



Another option if you are serious about this is to get a static IP 
allocated to you. Don't know anything about your ISP, but mine (small 
but high quality English one) just gave me 2 /27 blocks (2 x 30 usable 
public IPs). My ISP is not cheap, but they are not that expensive 
either, considering I have a monthly limit of 200GB.


A third option if you are *really* serious is to run a hosted virtual 
machine. I use linode.com for my mail server - they are linux 
specialists and not expensive and you get a wide choice of options and 
datacentre locations.

Cheers

Tim

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Exposing my home website to the internet. "john@wexfordpress.com" <john@wexfordpress.com> - 2014-09-27 12:41 -0700
  Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. Andreas Kohlbach <sep14.5.ankman@spamgourmet.com> - 2014-09-27 15:49 -0400
  Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-09-27 20:47 +0000
  Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. parspes <parspes@gmail.com> - 2014-09-27 16:34 -0500
  Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2014-09-27 17:38 -0400
    Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-09-28 19:20 +0100
      Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-28 22:54 +0100
        Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2014-09-29 17:45 -0400
  Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. Axel Bergerhoff <axel@da.heim> - 2014-09-28 01:53 +0200
  Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-28 09:39 +0100
    Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-09-28 19:22 +0100
      Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-28 22:54 +0100
        Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-09-29 11:49 +0100
  Re: Exposing my home website to the internet. James Moe <jimoeDESPAM@sohnen-moe.com> - 2014-09-28 23:22 -0700

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