Sunday, January 27, 2008

Learning how to make my own web server

I finally figured it out. How to turn my computer into a web server. So I could host my own pages.

I need to write a quick tutorial, but basically I had to make it on a port other that port 80.
I had to play with my linksys router (192.168.1.1) and the Qwest Actiontec modem (192.168.0.1)

I made my LAN ip 192.168.1.3
I make the linksys's router ip 192.168.0.4 (with reference to the DSL modem)
I did port forwarding on port 81 from the Modem to 192.168.0.4
I did port forwarding on port 81 from the router to 192.168.1.3
I installed POW (plain old webserver) as an extension to firefox. I ran it using port 80.
you have to test it on a computer not in your lan.
....More details to come!

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