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rctneil

rctneil

rctneil

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Hello,
I am running WAMP Server 2 on my computer as a place to develop websites before I put them live. I wish to allow other people access to see the sites on my WAMP server and ahve been told to try DynDNS.com. I ahve registered with them and set up a Host Server and put my Ip address in but whenever I try the address in my browser it just goes to my router settings page. How do I make it go to my WAMP main page whcih is normally localhost. And If I wanted to secure all this with a password so only people to whom I ahve told the password would be able to see my wamp server tehn how could I achieve this with a .htaccess file?

Thanks

Regards,
Neil
 
Most routers will not allow you to connect to an internal node using the external IP address. You need to use a device external to your LAN to test the dyndns is working.
 
DynDNS requires you to type in the url of the server, not the IP address.

Also is your router configured for port forwarding to direct the inbound traffic to the internal server.

However as already mentioned you really need to use an external source to test this.
 
I'm rather confused by what needs to be done. Can anyone post some steps for me to follow and I am using a D-Link DSL G604t router.

Thanks

Neil
 
Your router will have either a DMZ option (demilitarized zone) or Port Forwarding option. If you have a DMZ option then put the internal IP address of that machine in it. IE 192.168.0.1 Your router will then forward ALL port requests to this IP address. If however you do not have a DMZ option then you need to do Port Forwarding IE forward port 80 and 8080 to the internal IP address. There should be lots more info in the manual about either DMZ or Port Forwarding options.

DYNDNS is handy because if your router reconnects to your provider and your IP changes DYNDNS updates it's ip address within one 60 seconds as long as your router supports the feature.
 
Dead and Gone said:
Your router will have either a DMZ option (demilitarized zone) or Port Forwarding option. If you have a DMZ option then put the internal IP address of that machine in it. IE 192.168.0.1 Your router will then forward ALL port requests to this IP address. If however you do not have a DMZ option then you need to do Port Forwarding IE forward port 80 and 8080 to the internal IP address. There should be lots more info in the manual about either DMZ or Port Forwarding options.
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I personally wouldnt recommend that, your opening up a computer where you do testing and development, and there will have intentionally misconfigured servers (this is a test enviroment and your more than likely working with servers that you havent used before) running on there.

It only needs one person to take advantage of that and they will have access to your network.
 
just one way of doing it... port forwarding can have problems! as packets of data are passing onto your network. Granted your need to know what your doing more with a DMZ server....
 
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