I have finally gotten a webserver running with port 80 forwarded to the correct location (10.0.0.250 on my network). A very strange thing is going on though. I can't access the webserver through our IP address yet other people can. When I try to view it through the Internet rather than the LAN, I get my router's web frontend pop up but nobody outside of our LAN does.

The solution is to just view it through 10.0.0.250 on the network but this then causes problems whenever you click on a link as I can't link via the network and allow other people to view it and I can't link via the web as then I won't be able to view it. I can go through a proxy and get onto it fine but I don't want to be doing that forever.

Does anybody know a solution to this other than changing the port that the router operates on. If I were to change that and it were to get messed up, I would be unable to get back into it so I don't want to alter that if there is another solution.

I'm running Apache 2.x (whatever comes with Debian Sarge) on Debian Sarge (you never would've guessed ). It has mod_php and mod_perl installed if that information is useful.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that Apache is listening on both port 80 and port 8080. Both ports are forwarded. People outside the network can access it on both ports but even though my server's frontend only listens on port 80, I still can't access apache along port 8080 -- Firefox reports 'connection refused'

Rather than entering the IP adress in your web browser, type
http://localhost:whatever_port_it_listens_on

since i have my apache listening in 5151, i type http://localhost:5151 to see my webserver from my computer.

That should allow you to view any webserver running on the computer you are at as though you were on the website remotely. I'm also pretty sure that doing this with 8080 will work as well.

On some routers, the port forward only works from the the internet side, not from the LAN side. I used to have such a router. I'm now running a Linksys WRT54G and do not have this problem.

Yes, that was my problem Snowbat (was because I have found a solution to it now). It isn't the best of solutions but I ended up just adding my domain to the hosts file on every machine
I also found mod_rewrite which can change links on the fly if you are accessing it from the network but it was a lot more hastle than just using hosts.

Thanks anyway

Yup, definitely true. I have a Netgear MR814 and it does not work from the LAN side, but works fine with a Linksys router. Oh yeah, and this Netgear router sucks because it doesn't do VPN. Screw you Netgear!