Stupid (?) question regarding Apache 2.0 Win32 edition

Hi.

I'm pretty new to this whole web server thing, but today I installed Apache 2.0.44 for Windows. I can see that the server works by accessing localhost which shows me the "Apache was installed successfully" page, BUT, now to my question; I gave some friends my adress because I wanted them to test if it worked, but it did not.

How do I configure Apache so that it works for other people than me? ... I feel stupid.

First of all... Don't feel stupid.

The first thing you should check is if you are giving an internal private address to your friends, or an external address.

Internal meaning something like 192.168.xxx.xxx

Also, you may be giving out the correct ip address or domain name, but if you have a firewall, port 80 may not be open.

Another problem may be that some cable providers don't allow port 80, so change the statement in your httpd.conf that looks like this:

Listen xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to

Listen xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:81

or you can use 8080 instead of 80 or 81.


Hope that helps.

if you're given an ip address starting with 192. only you and people on your network(if you have one) can see the site.

yeah I know that.. The problem is solved now though. I had forgotten to disable XP's built in firewall after formatting and reinstalling... hahaha. well, it's all good now.

thanks for the advices.