Re: Apache Web Server Set Up

[Steven Isaacson <spisaacs@xxxxxxx>]

Matt Hansen wrote:

> I don't know if it's this way in Houghton, but it is in Traverse City, and
> since it's the same ISP (Charter), I'd assume it's the same. Charter
> blocks incoming traffic on port 80 (the HTTP port), as well as the other
> "standard" ports (21, etc). You'll have to set your domain to send traffic
> to a different port that Charter isn't blocking (I found that 473 worked),
> and then setup port forwarding on your router/firewall, and change the
> port Apache is listening on to the appropriate port. If Yahoo! doesn't let
> you change the port that traffic is forwarded to, check out
> http://www.dyndns.org.
>
>  
They do however let port 22(ssh) in. Which I hartily appreciate.

And you don't have to worry about the port when doing DNS. Since an A 
record will make all traffic to a certain domain go to a single IP 
regardless of the port. You will just have to link to your website like
http://www.sgowtham.net:8080 or something.

I just noticed, S. Gowtham that you put your domain in your /etc/hosts 
file so you will never see if the DNS is messed up because your computer 
will always use the hosts file.

-steve