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Re: Exposing my home website to the internet.

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john@wexfordpress.com wrote on 27. September 2014:
>
> 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.

Go to http://www.showmyip.com/ for example. It should show your "last"
(real) IP address.

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

Unless the IP the URL above shows you isn't really fixed (a power outage
might already prevent this and your ISP assigns you a different IP when
you log back in) you could sign up for a service assigning an address to
your IP <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_DNS>.

Since you have a router you can often let it do this job. Check its
settings for "Dynamic DNS" or similar. Otherwise you need a
program/script for your computer doing this. I use ddclient for this,
which is supposed to work with any services.

You also need to forward your server port(s) (usually 80 and may be 443)
in your router.
-- 
Andreas

I wish my grass was emo. Then it would cut itself.

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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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