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?


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?

Thanks for all the help in advance.

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.