How to make ip address public?

[drillsar]

Im on verizon and having problems accesing my site from my friends computer, so im thinking my IP is private, How can I make it public so world wide can access my site?

[yourname3232]

If Verizon assigned you a private IP then there is nothing you can do about it.

But if your WAN IP is not private then look into port forwarding (assuming that you are behind a router)

[drillsar]

I did port forwarding and they do block port 80 here so I made port 81 and it is open I checked with shields up.

I went to zoneedit and added webforward http://absolutelyreef.com:81 both www and absolutelyreef.com

I added static nat to enable 192.168.1.47 and add my service tdp 81

I changed apache to listen to port 81

I can access my site but no one else can so what the heck is the problem what am I doing wrong here?

/etc/hosts file what should I put here?

[jledhead]

I can, when I clicked your link I was redirected
http://absolutelyreef.com:81/apache2-default/

so it seems to be working to me

[drillsar]

I think my site is working now but I cant see it.. Strange..
I have to typ my lan address..

Can anyone check to see?
http://www.absolutelyreef.com:81
http://absolutelyreef.com:81

Also is there a way that I can use either port 80? or redirect so you dont have to put :81 at the end? Like a proxy server or something on my linux?

I tried it (http://absolutelyreef.com:81) but all I got was a "couldn't find..." message.

What IP address did you get displayed when visiting the http://grc.com (Shields Up!)?? There you can see what IP address you have. The 192.168.1.47 is a local IP address (reserved for LAN only).

[yourname3232]

Both of these addresses work for me. Good job.

[jvonmitchell]

I can't get to it (9/5/08 4:38 est)
If you got into it with your LAN address that makes me think it's private.

Oh, I got to it without designating port 81. Says it's hacked.