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Some people *cough* CG *cough* just run TCP syn checks every time they connect to a network, and if they notice a port 25 (not 80 BTW) had a FTP Server installed (client is what you connect with ) i'm sure they'd have gotten curious... Moral of the story: use the firewall

Ohh I use a firewall...

I set up a server using Apache and the instructions from here:
http://www.dslwebserver.com/main/main.html
I used Dydns and Zone edit.
It ain't much, but it's here:
www.hughvandervoort.com

I set this up and it was working great..until I restarted my computer. Now when I try to open my page (using 192.168.0.4 - how it was working earlier) it is asking me for a username and password. I don't think I made any changes. How can I get this to go back to how it was?

I found its actually easier to setup Apache and PHP seperatly. I could never get XAMPP to work

I think I've got this working but when I go to the URL of my sub domain it goes to the configuration utility of my SpeedTouch 576 router, any help?

I like to use WAMP ( Windows Apache Mysql PHP ). it doesn't have to may addons, but it works for starting a beginner site. i host 5 subdomains from it, using virtual hosts in apache's http.conf file. using seperate ports and folders for each.

After Installing WAMP I go into the http.conf file and move everything needed to host a VirtualHost to the end of the file.

so one of my VirtualHosts look like this:

Code:

NameVirtualHost *:9090 Listen 9090 <VirtualHost> ServerAdmin email addy DocumentRoot D:/sirussofts/www/www2 ServerName localhost <Directory> Options All AllowOverride none Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost>

now the first "www" folder is set as the default directory, so you have to change this. I chage it to a sub directory of that very folder so that i may have each foldewr set up as its own site. connected via its own port and subdomain.

I also make it so i can use non default names to open the index of a folder so i have made the DirectoryIndex look like this:

Code:

DirectoryIndex portal.php index.php index.php3 index.html index.htm main.php main.php3

this allows for; portal.php, index.php, index.php3, index.html, index.htm, main.php, and main.php3 to be used in opening a folders contents, jus tas if it were the "index" file.

Now my last step is to forward port 9090 in both my routers( I have a westell from verizon, and a linksys i bought ) and in windows firewall, then go to no-ip.org and select the Host Type as "port 80 redirect" and select port 9090.

update ( or restart ) No-IP DUC so it picks up your new subdomain, and bobs your uncle.

so now when a user goes to http://mysite.no-ip.org they get send to my IP on port 9090 instead of port 80.

now i seem to have an issue viewing my subdomain from with in my network, so i am restricked to viewing it as my machine name then the port like this:

Code:

http://machinename:9090/

I almost forgot

in your http.conf you'll find this line

Code:

ServerName localhost:80

your gonna need to change that line to

Code:

ServerName localhost

otherwise your vitrual servers will NOT work.

I just remembered this after spending about 4 hours troubleshooting my apache2 http.conf file.