Hello,

I have what seems like a pretty standard, or at least vanilla, home setup. A cable modem connects to an Asus RT AC68-U, that has a wired connection to my desktop computer (Pop-OS 22.04) and serves everything else via WIFI. I have firewalls enabled on both the router and the desktop computer.

I have served a very small website from my desktop machine for decades. The configuration has changed many times, and I feel like I have the desktop firewall configured correctly, although I welcome any comments - I did run sudo ufw allow 'Apache'

I am unsure about the router, however. I figure I need to do port forwarding to make a hole to serve http, but I don't know how to do it, and the manual for the router is not helpful. Can anyone help me out?

Thanks.

Basically from the manual.
1. Enable port forwarding.
2. Select what type of service. Whatever it has listed for web server.
3. Enter name of service i.e web server
4. Enter the LAN IP address of your web server.
5. source and local port should be 80.
6. web traffic is TCP.

You will probably not be able to access your server using the public IP address from your LAN because it will most likely just resolve to the router's web setup page.

I guess that your ISP does allow web servers on a home service as well as not blocking originating web traffic?

I rebooted the router and went through port forwarding again, and now it worked. Thanks.