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Making public webserver

3 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/making-public-webserver.17962/

Saahib
Saahib Original post #1
Nov 1, 2005 at 9:12 PM
I want a my computer as webserver, but problem is that Iam on private IP ie I am on My ISP's LAN .

So guys is ther any way I can configure webserver on my computer ?
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digen #2
Nov 2, 2005 at 12:43 AM
From your post it appears you are behind a One-to-Many NAT[Network Address Translation]

What you want can only be done at the ISP's end at the gateway or router.They have to manually configure port forwarding port 80 inbound to your internal IP.

Unless & untill they do this at their end there is no possibility you could host a http site for the public.It will be only confined to the hosts within the internal LAN.
Saahib
Saahib #3
Nov 2, 2005 at 1:44 PM
digen bau..

Ya I know I am behind NAT and also caching.. I know there is no way but is there any service which can help me ?
I know that if some provide a server like providing thier public IP as my server address, that way I mean their software connect from computer to their server and it divert all request from their server to mine..
It is a logical way ;)