DNS Error accessing webserver

[steven]

I have an Apache web server running on my machine, with a "no-ip" url at joelperl.no-ip.info. I can access the web server from any machine on the internet that I have. I told a friend to go to it, and they said it couldn't be found - DNS error - the same thing you get when you type a website in wrong. I figured maybe No-ip was down or something, so I gave him my real IP address, but the same thing happened. Along this i want to introduced some cheap <a href="http://www.envisionwebhosting.com/linux-hosting.htm">linux hosting</a> services along with the <a href="http://www.envisionwebhosting.com/blog-hosting.htm">blog hosting</a> services which are reliable and easy to use now people are going to use <a href="http://www.envisionwebhosting.com/wordpress-hosting.htm">wordpress hosting</a> services just because they are much reliable and you can use it at home or office equally. after this continue to previous talk, Yes, I asked him to read the IP back to me. It was typed in correctly, and no, he didn't accidentally put a www at the beginning. He could access every other site he tried, but not mine. Why?

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[Mir]

Sorry for the late reply.

There is no way to make 8080 as the default port because port 80 is used as the HTTP Server port on many browsers. You have to figure out a way to forward port 80, or tell people to go to piemaster.net:8080. (i tried to go to http://piemaster.net:8080, but it doesnt work for me.

About .htaccess, wherever the default directory is (which contains your index.html file)

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[Pie21]

Hey again, thanks for the reply.

When I said it worked it did, but then it stopped working shortly afterwards. I didn't know why, and I couldn't figure out how to deal with the :8080, AND THEN my laptop's wireless totally messed up and that was the last straw. This has been killing me for the last 2 weeks, and following the discovery of port 80 being blocked and that Optus doesn't even allow web hosting on their Personal plans anyway, I decided to close the door on web hosting for now. Sigh. It's a lot of stress I don't have to worry about anymore.

I'm hosted over at http://heliohost.org/ which is pretty much perfect for everything I wanted to do in the first place, and everything just WORKS. Welcome, everyone, to http://piemaster.net/, now with 100% less errors.

That said, I'd like to sincerely thank you both again for your extreme patience and helpfulness, and for all the work you've put into EHCP. It's clear to me now that the problem was always firmly mine and nothing to do with EHCP whatsoever, so next time I decide to try and host something, you can be sure I'll be giving EHCP another shot. I've learnt a huge amount about web hosting from this whole experience, however painful, so I can safely say it was worth it.

Cheers!
- Oliver

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[Mir]

Your website looks very nice I like to program in java also , may i ask why you wanted to host your own web server?




Im glad you solved all of your problems (and learned a bit in the process).






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