Hi guys,

I've installed my apache, and it works fine when I access it either through http://localhost or through http://myIP:80 .
but when I tell my friends to access http://myIP:80 it doesnt work?

Any idea why? or maybe I forgot to configure a critical section?

Thanx in advance

I think you forgot a firewall blocking port 80 or a router not setup for port 80.

do you use a router and what OS do you use?

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Nope I'm not using any firewall, no router.

I'm using Windows XP Pro. If your talking about the firewall in network connections' properties, I dont have it on.

Any idea ?! >.<

This may be a silly question, but is your IP address a dedicated public address that has been routed by your ISP?

um... how do I check that?
Isnt that automatic?

Not especially. Have you registered a domain name? And how do you connect to the internet? Alot of ISP's will use DHCP to give out addresses unless you specifally request a static address. (They sometimes charge more for this as well.)

When you type in ipconfig /all in a console window are you getting an address that starts with 10.0 or 192.168.? These are private non-routable addresses.

No I dont have a domain name... thats not necessary right?
And i do have a static ip address...

BTW, i've made a progress.. now ppl get a different error msg when they try to access my ip through http://myIPaddress:443

Bad request!
Your browser (or proxy) sent a request that this server could not understand.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 400
localhost
3/4/2004 11:24:58 AM
Apache/2.0.48 (Win32) mod_perl/1.99_12 Perl/v5.8.2 mod_ssl/2.0.48 OpenSSL/0.9.7c PHP/4.3.4

Any idea?

No, a domain name is not absolutely necessary, it just makes it easier to get to your site

Anyway, how are you hooked up to the internet? You are not going through a router to share a connection are you?

And you are sure that your IP address of your windows machine is public (not private)?

Woohooo!!!
I found what the problem is.

I called my ISP this morning and they told me that they blocked port 80 to prevent users from running a web server (odd how they told me this). So I changed it to port 90 ... its weird how port 443 doesnt work though...

BTW I am sharing my connection, but I'm the server =). so the router is for the other computers. What do I have to do if my connection is re-directed by the router anyway?

Maybe you should not run this server on port 90.

they block port 80 to prevent users from running a webserver, they don't do that for fun.

But YOU are the user and I'm sure you know what you do.

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