Setting up public server in Suse 11.0?

English Network/Internet
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Hello,

I’m not experienced in building webserver. Trying to google some tutorials but no good. If I understood right I must set static IP address first? But how? I’m a total newbie in these areas.

I have lampp installed and it works fine, but only locally… how to get it public? what I would like to is to share my /home/rolle -folder for example to public, like when you type http://mydomain.com or http://myip/ you get to my home folder. http://localhost or http://hostname works at home in every pc, but I would like to get it to work outside as well. So my question is how exactly I do this?

And do you know any good tutorials for suse where is everything, requirements, settings and all?

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Here’s a quote from the net re going public with a home Apache server:

You will have a router protecting your Lan from the internet. Open port forwarding and forward port 80 to the internal IP address of your web server. If you have an additional (personal) SuSEfirewall2 on your web server, in Yast firewall settings enable http as an allowed service for the external zone. At that point you can address your web server by the external IP address of your broadband connection (look in your router using your web browser if you’ve forgotten).

Reference for the quote

So at that stage I could address my server by IP as http://abc.def.ghi.jkl. To do it by domain name I enrolled at dynamic dns and then could address it by http://mynames.dyndns.org. You can go the next step with http://your.domain.com too.

Luck

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You have to have a static IP address from your ISP.
Or configure and use dynDNS
(but then your broadband modem needs to support this).

On the outside the dns servers have to know what your
server has as IP adress thats why you have to use either one.

DB

DominicusB
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rollex2 wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I’m not experienced in building webserver. Trying to google some
> tutorials but no good. If I understood right I must set static IP
> address first? But how? I’m a total newbie in these areas.
>
> I have lampp installed and it works fine, but only locally… how to
> get it public? what I would like to is to share my /home/rolle -folder
> for example to public, like when you type http://mydomain.com or
> http://myip/ you get to my home folder. http://localhost or
> http://hostname works at home in every pc, but I would like to get it
> to work outside as well. So my question is how exactly I do this?
>
> And do you know any good tutorials for suse where is everything,
> requirements, settings and all?

4

dynDNS works, thanks a lot!