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Hello,

I?ve currently developed a message board (ironically an invision power board) on my Laptop Running Xandros 2.0 Business Edition RC 2.

I love the GUI for running Xandros, and I love the ease of joining a domain.

But I?m lost here?.

See, if I set up my network connection here at work with an internal IP, all the Domian goodies that I love in X2 are functioning, however I do not know how to set up the site to work with an externally accessible IP.

Now If I set up the laptop with an external IP (same as the one I?m developing my board on) I can work and let the other testers on the board, but I cannot join the domain.

The issue is, The board is done, I?d love to run this on a box with an internal IP, so it can be accessible on the domain from my workstation, but still have the site be accessible, we do our own DNS so changes like that would be no problem.

However I do not know what changes would need to be made to the HTTPD.conf file to allow an external IP to get to the computer.

Does anyone know what I?m talking about? And can hopefully help me

And please? no one say ?Use vanilla debian or FreeBSD?? I like Xandros and would like to deploy on it.

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I think you need www.<< spam >> fortunatily my Draytek supports Dynamic DNS right of the bat. Though if your running Linux you have to install some client software to update the IP to the DDNS service. It works a treat.

Edit WWWWWWWWTTTTTTTFFFFFFFFFFF

www<noip>com (replace<> as .)

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not exactly sure if this is what you are asking for, but i use dyndns.org to keep my ip updated to my website address, and from there i can ssh into my other boxes on my lan.. like i said im not sure if this is what you are wanting

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O_o!

No... Doesn't sound right.... could be, if not for the Spam addons I could look into it..

Hows this for wording

If I had a linux box, behind a firewall with an 192 internal IP, how would I get the website on that computer, on apache, to be viewable from the outside?

My company runs its own DNS.

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like i mentioned earlier, i use dyndns with custom dns that i paid for, got the ddclient which runs on linux, bought a domain name, opened up the correct ports on my firewall, ran apache, and boom all setup from the outside.

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Well, for the first thing, you will need to make sure that incoming port 80 requests are set to route through your router to your Linux box. This is done ON your router, and the procedure will differ from model to model. It is called Port Forwarding.

As for getting on the internet, once that is done, you are pretty much there! :yes:

HOWEVER, friends/family/whatever will have to access your PC by your IP (the one your ISP calls you, not the PC's IP assigned by the router). :(

AND, this can change frequently (or not-so frequently, as it varies by ISP policy), because you likely have a Dynamic IP served by DHCP. :blink:

So, you can live with this, and by happy with letting your viewers know when your IP changes, or you can buy a static IP from your ISP (probably, but running a server is usually against their Terms & Conditions, anyhow! :pinch: ).

I have heard of a service that will allow easy "name" access to a PC with a Dynamic IP. Basically, they keep track of your changing IP, and route appropriate named requests to your IP. I don't know what that service is, but it was named in these forums somewhere....

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The IP is static, I'll be hosting the site at work, we've got the IP's

The board currently runs on Windows 2000 server, but I want to move it to Invision on Nix, however Noone know jack **** about nix... so its up to me to find out.

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dude if you got a static ip and your own dns servers, just buy a domain name and enter your domain name servers in the domain configuration usually utilities are provider by those domain name providers... that way it will resolve to your namehost along with allowing people to access your server with a domain name rather than ip..

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If your company is using a corporate firewall you'll probably need to get in touch with your IT department and ask them to allow traffic through the firewall and route it to your machine. At my uni we have to fill out special firewall forms that ask for the server type, services and ports required, if this is deemed as allowed they can route to that server. If you have an externally purchased domain name this then has to be transerred from whereever you registered it, and you'll likely have to tell the IT department who currently holds the domain name to get it transferred so it resolves to the IP address of your work which they will allocate.

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