[wellylug] Setting up a simple web server

[David Antliff]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, John Durham wrote:
> The only fire wall on these systems is a NAT on the router. For LAN
> access, this won't be involved. What precisely do you mean by 'port
> forward'?

Your firewall (i.e. device that does NAT in this case) should have the 
ability to forward connections from the Internet to port 80 on your 
firewall/router to some port on some internal machine (i.e. your 
webserver). Without this, connections to port 80 (which is the standard 
HTTP webserver port) will just be rejected by the router. You need to 
"forward" the connection attempts to your actual internal webserver.

Hope this helps,

-- 
David.