web server on my lan.. I need help !

If you want to set up your own web server you need to have static IPs, for people to access your computer through the Internet,

Ask you ISP to provide you with a server/commercial DSL account(5 ips in a block) if possible.

It's not possible to run your computer as a web server without a static IP account.

Hope this helps

Hi, like I posted, i will be using dialupdns.com's service, their software associates a static IP to my dynamic IP, my problem here is not about the static IP, its to get the webserver to be web accessible from behind the proxy, I was told their was software wich could "route" requests to port 80 of my static IP to my webservers 10.0.0.10 internal IP, but so far no one I talked to could remember the name of the software.

I just taught of something... could I just have the webserver software (omni httpd) to run on the proxy server but have all the web files reside on the other PC on the lan ? would it just be a matter of setting up paths to point to that machine ? should I be concerned about security ?

Try

http://www.tzo.com/

Regards,
NSS

DialupDns.com offers the same service...for free

Before i get into the domain hosting part i must get the webserver to work.....

Configuring the server software is a tough job and security is of paramount importance or your server will be open to attack by hackers.

Good luck.

Regards,
NSS

I would have to say that you might want to at least get rid of the windows box to host a web site at home. I know you can do it with microsoft PWS, but i would recommend going with Linux on a home box. I have 5 computers set up in my home, 4 windows and 1 Linux. The windows pc's are my everyday machines, while the linux machine is my "test" server for me to upload sites in progress for customers to see the building of their site. This way, I do not take up bandwidth and space on my paid hosting, and don't upload anything on their host until they are satisfied. Most Linux distros also come with Netscape, so I can view the pages that I build in NS on Linux, and IE on Windows. I do have a cable modem, so the machine is always online, and security is an issue with any machine that has a dedicated connection to the internet. And as for stability, the windows boxes I have must be rebooted about once every week. Linux hasn't been rebooted in months, allowing 100% uptime for that machine. I have some pretty good battery back-ups on all my machines, but I have been lucky that the power hasn't gone off for more then about 10 or 15 minutes at once.

I found the solution of my problem.. so here it is, just in case someone else has the same problem as me in the future.

I found on analogx.com a port mapper software, I simply redirected port 80 of my proxy to the internal IP of the server... and thats it ! works great but does make the proxy server work hard, its going to need lots of ram

Thanks to all who have replied.

Nah, hosting a web server at home puts very little strain on your proxy server - or web server for that matter - the bottleneck will always be the internet connection. I speak from experience, I hosted a web site for the last six months on 1.5/384 ADSL (dynamic IP), and even when busy, the machines / network are not taxed at all. Recently moved to 2/384 cable modem (static IP, yay), same deal.

Oh, and dtdns.net (DarkTech) offers free dynamic IP as well, as does dyndns.org - I've used both in the past, they're both good.