I am fascinated with the idear of hosting a few web pages of my own. However, I moved to a new address and now I can no longer access my website from the internet. I have a name server. I have been able to ping that. nslookup verifies my name server. I can access the website from my local network with my server's ip address.

I have duplicated all the steps I had previously done and can no longer see my website from the internet. I am looking for a some advice and or suggestions.
Thanks.

No answers, just a few more questions:

Can you ping your external ip address from a remote location (see http://www.whatismyip.com/ for your ip address or check your router status)?

How were you publishing your IP address before you moved?

Did you change ISPs when you moved? (Some of them block port 80 for incoming traffic unless you pay for a business account.)

I think it may be an issue with my dns provider. Free is ot always free. I will look into that end before troubleshooting else where. Thanks.

Let us know what you find. It may help someone else out down the road.

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I have been attempting to reconnect to my apache server through my dns provider. Now I am only able to connecct through my ipaddress/my.domain.com. I am truly a novice so I can only assume that my website is behind by router? Would appreciate any assistance, suggestions or resources concerning this.

Thanks
Nyahuma

How else are you looking to connect?

i'm using a free dns provider that doesn't work for trying to access local machine with domain name, fine for everyone else. since i know that keeping it updated that i still want the name will make it work fine for others, i just changed my hosts file to direct to the servers lan address, works fine. get someone else to test it for you.

I can access my web page from outside my home network.... if I type in my ipaddress I get the default apache server page "It Works!". But in order to view my website I must type ipaddress/my.domain.com How do I "changed my hosts file to direct to the servers lan address?" that might just do the trick.
Thanks
Nyahuma

That's probably because your router/modem doesn't allow loopback connections. This is when you type in a domain/ip, which redirects you back to the WAN port of your own router, and back inside your own network. Some routers/modems don't allow this, in which case you have to go directly to the LAN IP of the machine you're trying to access when you're inside the network.

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in /etc/hosts you just add the lan ip address, then the domain name, there's probably a few examples already in there... might also be good to put spammer and advertiser domains in there with 127.0.0.1 so they don't resolve.

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I appreciate all the assistance on reconnecting my apache server to the web. Initially I was able to connect from the web to my websites, until I moved and my ISP change the server I had used previously. Well now I can access one(1) website from the internet hosted on my server. However, I am unable to connect with any other site that I am hosting. I have placed my VirtualHosts in my default file in sites-available (like I had done previously) but regardless of the url I get the first VirtualHost. I would like to know how to correct this issue.

Thanks for Your assistance and valuable information.

nyahuma