Re: Accessing web pages through the internet

From: Paul J Gans (gans_at_panix.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 03:07:08 +0000 (UTC)

Juhan Leemet <juhan@logicognosis.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 01:23:00 +0000, mjt wrote:

>> Michael W. Cocke wrote:
>>
>>>>... www.dyndns.org ?
>>
>>> That will work with comcast, but comcast blocks port 80 inbound,
>>
>> ... WTF do they do that for? so people wont host their
>> own websites from their home boxen??? << sheesh >>

>Yep! So that you have to pay them to host your web site.

You can set up Apache to listen on a port of your choice.
A common one is 8080, but your ISP might block that too.

There is a file, /etc/services, that lists the standard
ports for the various services.

Setting up Apache to do this isn't hard. I think only
one change in the configuration file is needed. But
I'd check the Apache documentation (on the apache site
if not on your computer).

I've never actually changed my port number. I'm going
on what I recall of the documentation.

    ----- Paul J. Gans