Connecting

[The Little Guy]

I don't know if this is relavent to this board, but is it an Apache thing, or a ISP thing, where people of the outside world not being able to connect to my web server?

ISP: Charter Communications.

If ISP is the problem, how do they know if I'm running a web server, or a game server? I can run a game server, but not a web server for some reason.

[Zane]

check your router/modem configuration and make sure you have DMZ turned on for your IP

[The Little Guy]

I don't have a router does this matter?

[Zane]

how you getting internet........dial-up

[The Little Guy]

From my Cable-modem

[remmargorp]

They probably block port 80 traffic. Have your webserver listen on a different port

[The Little Guy]

I had it changed to port 8080 and that didn't work either.

If I had a Router, Would I then be able to use port 80?

[remmargorp]

When you changed the listen port to 8080, did you restart the apache server?

Did you try accessing your page using the IP address as well as a :8080

for example if your computers IP address was 111.222.333.444 then you would access the web page using  http://111.222.333.444:8080

[remmargorp]

I would also test with a "non-standard" port. Something different than port 8080, try port 51234 (just to test it, if it works, use a port that best suits you)

How are you accessing the server as it is?

What are the first two octets of your computers IP address (in the previos post, 111 and 222 would be the first two octets)?

If your computer is connected directly to the modem, you should be receiving a public IP address from your ISP (public means accessible by anyone from the outside).

Some ISP's block standard ports (like 21, 22, 23, 80, 443... etc etc).

If the ISP is blocking those ports, you would have your web server listen on a different port (as my previous post stated), you would access it via another computer by typing in the computers public IP followed by a colon and the port

If it is still unaccessible, you probably have a firewall running on that computer. If a firewall is running, disable it, then test it, if it works, then enable the ports you want to use, and the firewall should pass the traffic.

[The Little Guy]

Changing my port WORK!!! yes! Thank you I have been trying to figure it out for over a year now.!

[The Little Guy]

You know some hosting companies make you pay for a static IP, other wise you get a dynamic IP, well... How can I make mine work as if it was a static IP, yet still be dynamic?

I downloaded the No-IP DUC v2.2.1, and I don't know if that is the best thing for this.  Any Ideas about this?

[remmargorp]

I do not endorse breaking any ISP policies.

Register with http://www.no-ip.com
The No-IP software you downloaded is the newest version from them so you're fine.
Configure the software to update, 30 minutes is the quickest I would set it to.

There are some other "Dynamic DNS" services, I prefer no-ip, some others are listed here [url=http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/Address_Management/Dynamic_DNS_Services/]http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/Address_Management/Dynamic_DNS_Services/[/url]

The nice thing about No-IP (I'm not sure if this is offered anywhere else), is the port 80 redirect.

This would allow something to goto  http://somewebsite.no-ip.org and the port 80 redirect would transparently append :dport (where dport is the destination port) so the user wouldn't have to know the port you have the server listening on

[The Little Guy]

With their Port 80 redirect, do they do that for paid services? where you get your own domain name, along with port 80 redirect?

[remmargorp]

The port 80 redirect is offered for free, but you are required to use a subdomain on one of their domains.

I am pretty sure the paid service allows you to do the same thing, however you can have your own domain name.