Web server behind an ADSL router

[kwr2k]

<noobie>

Hi,
I recently bought and installed a wireless router. On one of its LAN ports, I want to configure a linux-based webserver. Now, the router acts as a DHCP server and assigns addresses from 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.0.254.
My confusion is how do i configure the linux box so that an http request from outside (internet) gets to it. The adsl router has a static ip from the provider.

Is there enough info in my query? The setup basically looks like this:

{ internet } <==> (adsl router) <==> LAN (where one of the boxes is the one whom I want to be the web server). There are a couple of laptops too that I use wirelessly.

Thank you.

</noobie>

[{-n()rx-}]

I have had the exact same thing (and still do), to host my webserver, very easy to fix.
It depends on what router you have, to do stuff in specific places, but:
1)Type in your routers IP address in the address bar of your browser.
2)A log in box will appear, usually the username and password are both admin, or sometimes username: admin password: password.
3)Now you have to look for something in your router configuration called "Port forwarding", or "Virtual servers"
4)Add a new port forward/virtual server with:
public/private port: 80
port type: TCP
Host IP: {Ip of your pc}
5)Save changes and reboot router, it should now re-direct all incoming traffic of port 80, to your pc, and in doing so enabling people to see your site.
6)If you need any help at all, post again, or try http://portforward.com/routers.htm for all the support youll need basicaly.

Good luck, and I would like to hear from you, whether it was successful, not succesful, or you need more help.

[sdousley]

in addition to this, if you find that it doesn't work immediately, you may also need to open port 80 on the external interface, i know my method is pretty much the same, except forwarding the port doesn't also open the port, so any requests get blocked by the router's built in firewall.

[adrenaline]

In addition to this if you are trying to access your web on the inside of you network and you don't have internal DNS you will have to add this to your host file

192.168.0.13 <tab><tab> yourwebsite.com

So

192.168.0.13 <---or whatever the IP of your website then hit tab twice
then the name of your site.

That way you will see it from the inside of your network

/etc/hosts

If you don't add this to hosts and you try and access from a private IP it wont know what the name of your web is. The out side world should see it fine but you won't internally. make sense?

[sdousley]

In addition to this if you are trying to access your web on the inside of you network and you don't have internal DNS you will have to add this to your host file

This also is a thing dependent on the router. When i was on standard ADSL service at Uni, i couldn't access anything and had to do something like this. Now i'm at home, and we're on cable internet, i dont know wether it's the fact we're on cable rather than ADSL or the router, but now, i can even access non-standard ports using my domain name rather than having to use the internal IP/hostname.

[kwr2k]

Thanks for all the replies, guys. Haven't got much time to play with it lately. Will try it out by this weekend and post my results.

Cheers.