hello all, this should be an easy one for you.

I'm trying to set up apache2 to serve a web page I'm building (don't worry, its just for fun. Clearly if I can't set up apache I shouldn't be an admin)

So I just downloaded and installed the package, looked at a couple blogs on configuring, and took off.

I'm using no-ip to give me my domain name.
Here is what I've done,
copied the default file in /etc/apache2/sites-available to test
added the line ServerName myname.sytes.net to test
deleted the link to 000default in sites-enabled
ran a2ensite test
and ran /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

upon which apache complained that it could not reliable determine my fully qualified domain name and set it would set it to 127.0.0.0.

Now, I can browse to localhost, and everything works fine. But if I browse to myname.sytes.net nothing happens. The browser just waits forever.

So I added ServerName myname.sytes.net to apache2.config, at which time it quit complaining about not being able to determine my fqdn, but it didn't change my browsing results. Any ideas?

In short, apache2 is serving fine if I request localhost, and doesn't seem to do anything otherwise.

Thanks for the help in advance.

For this too work you have to setup Virtual hosts, within the dir of apache2 there's also a vhost.conf file, you have to set this up for it too work. If you have a router, you might have to enable DynDNS in it as well.

Need to resolve what the IP address is for "myname.sytes.net". Try doing ping or nslookup of myname.sytes.net. If the IP address is the WAN side of your router, then need to set up port fowarding to the LAN IP of the apache server. Port 80 is default for most web server.

To set up port fowarding in your router will depend on the router. some routers will have port 80 already assigned for remote management of the router, so you may need to change the remote management port number. Plus, some routers may have port 80 closed, thus you'll need to set the router firewall to allow connections to port 80.

Be sure to reference your routers documentation if your not sure how.

If this is just for testing, you can modify /etc/hosts to resolve your new domain name to your localhost IP address. For example: