Help With Access to server

how to allow outside acces to server

[kohbo]

I have to admit I do this on my own time and do not know much about running a server, I'm mostly I programmer, i.e. java html c++ etc. I have installed apache and run the service. I type in localhost and I get the index file I made. The only problem is that when trying to access my server some other way it does not work. Am I missing something? Is there something I need to enable or something?

[jdMorgan]

kohbo,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Can you be more specific about "access my server some other way"?

What are you trying to do? There are many, many issues possibly involved, and writing about them all here would take days. In fact, many are covered in previous threads, but you'd still need to know what to search for to find them.

We could be talking about how localhost is always defined as the local machine that you are typing into, so every computer in the world is "localhost" to itself, or maybe firewall/router issues, or ISPs blocking port 80 to prevent people running unauthorized servers on cable/DSL, or the need to register a domain and set up a DNS zone file -- Any number of things...

Jim

[kohbo]

Thanks for the response. I wasn't sure what to specify on. Ok, yes, localhost remains as the address that needs to be typed in, but like you said, every computer is local host to itself so I no other compputer can access my site from the internet.

In reality I'm trying reach a final result of running my computer as a proxy server. Perhaps apache isn't the best choice? Like I said, I'm new to all this.