hey all, I have a shared internet connection on my network. My network consists of 2 windows boxes and 1 linux box. The internet works fine on all computers and apache works on the computer that hosts the internet connection. What I'm trying to do is get apache running on my linux box but I don't know how to set it up so other people can see my website. Like I have apache running and set up on my linux box and test it out internally using 127.0.0.1 but when I go to test it out using my internet IP it says it can't connect to host, same goes for others who try to connect. Is there a way I need to configure apache for it to work with a shared connection?? I'm also using no-ip ip updater to update my ip address.

any help would be appreciated.

Welcome to LQ.

How are your computers connected to the internet?

they're connected with a DSL Modem and the network is connected with just a switch, all harware and software firewalls have been shut off to try and make this easier. My network is just a home LAN Network, my main windows box hosts the internet connection and it's shared on the network. When I installed linux it seemed to have picked up the connection and I'm able to surf the internet with it (sorry I'm a semi-newb when it comes to linux).

I did notice that when I have my linux box and I go to http://www.whatismyip.com/ I get the same ip as the windows box who's sharing the internet connection.

Since your windows box has the public ip address you will need to forward port 80 from the windows box to port 80 on the linux box. There are a number of programs to do this such as AnalogX portmapper:
http://www.analogx.com/contents/down...rk/pmapper.htm

Then anyone outside your network should be able to access your site via the ip address you get from http://www.whatismyip.com/

You can test access outwith your network yourself by using a web proxy such as proxyfy or guardster:
http://www.proxify.com
http://www.guardster.com

wow ok I downloaded the portmapper prog but I have no idea how to set that up, if I do set it up and redirect port 80 to my linux box is that gonna screw things up on my windows box surfing and downloading-wise on the internet?

also if I'm running more than one service on my linux box like game servers and such would port forwarding cause lag?

No, it will only affect incomming connections. Just enter 80 in the port boxes and the local ip address of your linux box in the destination address.

Port forwarding itself wouldn't cause a lag but the more data you transmit over your network the slower it is likely to be.

alright now how do I get the ip of my linux box? I tried running ifconfig but the only ip I get is the internal one (127.0.0.1). I tried ping with my windows box but I have no idea what's the name of my linux box... lol I'm such a newb..

127.0.0.1 is the loopback, you should also have an ethernet card - probably eth0. Try:
ifconfig eth0

ok I got my linux ip but now the mapper keeps saying "failed to listen on maping 80:192.168.0.157" any idea why?

edit: oops nevermind I forgot to shut off my services on my windows box, it works now. You're a genius! thanks for all the help!

It looks like you have put the ip address in the source field and not in the destination