New Web Server Setup
 

Here is my plan: Setup a websever at home that is connected to my home network and the internet for people to access.

I want to keep my network secure (running windows on my network - Peer to peer on three machines). My internet connection is DSL with a router/firewill to my network.

A forth machine is setup (linux fedora). as of now it is hooked up behind the router/firewall along with my home network. Apache, mysql, & php are setup and have been tested on this machine and I can "serve" webpages to my network.

I already have a few websites being hosted by a hosting company and i want to move them to this machine and host them myself. How do i setup the machine to serve websites to the internet and still access it from my network?
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has anyone written a book or how-to on setting up a webserver from scratch to the point of hooking it up to a network and the internet?
If so can someone let me know?:study:

Thanks for all the help in advance.:D

If you have your server setup and its ok on your LAN, you should just be able to add a rule on you DSL Firewall to allow port 80 on its WAN interface to that host internally.

then just type the external ip into a browser on a different connection and you should get your default site....

I have setup this on my connection just as a test with the Apache test page, it was ok.

Then you can opt into a DNS Name for your IP if you wish. (www.dyndns.org)

Hope this helps.