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Re: Exposing my home website to the internet.

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On 09/27/2014 03:41 PM, 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?
> 
> 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.
> 
> All answers appreciated.
> 
> John C.

My ISP will not allow me to run a server on my machine(s) unless I tell
them and pay an additional monthly fee of $100. This includes a static
IP address, so I do not need to fumble around looking for it.

Verizon.

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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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