Help needed: home webserver

[Tangles]

Hi,

hope some of you talented guys can help me out. Im investigating the idea of hosting a website at home, ive got a spare PC i can use for this. My current network setup is a 2700HGV router with 2 PCs, and a PS3 hard wired to it and a laptop and Wii that connect wirelessly.

Now i know that if i host this website i will need to setup the router to forward port 80 to the webserver PC, but i assume this will then knacker all the other items in my network that need to access web/http stuff?

can anyone give a clear and concise answer to this scenario, ive done plenty of surfing and now have brain ache )

thanks in advance,

Nath

 

[Toxcity]

Nope. As port 80 is server-side and not client-side. The web browser could be any old port.

So basically, you will be fine. I am running a web server and like you have port 80 forwarded to it. No problems. A problem will only occur if you have more than one server with a web page on each. In this cause you need to change the port of one of them.

Hope this helps.

 

[JN]

Forwarding Port 80 to your server will not break web access for your other machines

It's a bit complicated to explain, but essentially you are only forwarding incoming requests on port 80 to your server, not the outgoing requests from other machines to websites.

 

[Tangles]

Cool!

So to go in for the kill, when doing the port forwarding for webserver access what exactly do i need to forward? is it only port 80 (http) and 443 (https) and which TCP or UDP or both or other?

Your help is appreciated, thanks Guys!

 

[ironviper]

Just 80 if youre hosting a regular website, if you will provide secure connections then do the https as well. stick to tcp

 

[Judderman]

Tcp/udp

Cool!

So to go in for the kill, when doing the port forwarding for webserver access what exactly do i need to forward? is it only port 80 (http) and 443 (https) and which TCP or UDP or both or other?

Your help is appreciated, thanks Guys!

I would personally enable both TCP and UDP as some search facilitys still require UDP to function, there are still a lot of applications that use UDP for things like search results and having the traffic enabled for both TCP and UDP will do no harm.

Also you will need to setup a dhcp reservation on your router and a static ip address on your webserver!

Good luck

 

[nathan]

what software you going for? I'd recommend debian, its what i use.

nath

 

[Tangles]

sorry to be boring but its gonna be win2003 server for the OS as my website is in .net and i need some special configuration in IIS to allow it to work properly.

thanks for the info, just got to put it into action now

Nathan

 

[Tangles]

can anyone give me a quick rundown of what i need to do to get the domain name resolving to my home ip address? presumably it is more that changing the nameservers to point to my ip address aswell?

thanks,

Nathan

 

[Tangles]

i have found that the company that i control my domain through (www.amenworld.co.uk) allow the amendment of the dns records, so i have changed the target ip address for my domain (and also added a subdomain just for a fun test)... hope this works, guess its gonna take time to filter through...

thanks,

Nathan