server newb needs help

[woodsonoversoul]

Do you think it could have something to do with these lines from httpd.config?

#
# ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to identify itself.
# This can often be determined automatically, but we recommend you specify
# it explicitly to prevent problems during startup.
#
# If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here.
#
#ServerName www.example.com:80
# XAMPP
ServerName localhost

[woodsonoversoul]

changed:
ServerName localhost

to:
ServerName www.theAddressIGotFromDyndns.com:80

and nothing changed

changed:
Listen 80

to:
Listen ipIGotFromCanyouseeme.org:80

and it broke xampp

it's so weird that it gets the correct file location from theAddressIGotFromDyndns.com. It's like it can get to the file, but doesn't have the correct permissions to access it...

[woodsonoversoul]

typing "addressIGotFromDyndns.com".com into mozzilla's url bar tries to access my local host

typing www."addressIGotFromDyndns.com".com into mozzilla's url bar just returns "can't find the server"

Don't know if that's relevant, just adding information.

Also, when I use "addressIGotFromDyndns.com".com the favicon turns into the xampp favicon just for a second before I get "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost." and then changes into the exclamation point thingy

[wojox]

I am trying to set up a server for a single website. I believe I already have the port forwarded. When I go to my router's admin page and it's port forwarding options I see this set as the only port forwarded...
# Service Name Start Port End Port Server IP Address
1 HTTP 80 80 192.168.*.*

Did you leave the *.* out on this thread. There in the port forward right ?

Also port forward the same thing with port 443.

[woodsonoversoul]

I'll double check but I'm pretty sure I replaced *.* with the last two digits of the actual ip address, I'm just nervous about giving out my info, and I'm not really knowledgeable so I don't know what should be kept private and what's okay to share.

What does 443 work with? I'll try it as soon as I'm home. Thanks

[woodsonoversoul]

bump for the night crew. Any ideas?

[wojox]

443 is for ssl which I couldn't for the life of me get an external connection unless I port forwarded it. It's on by default for Apache2.

[woodsonoversoul]

Damn. Now I'm getting timeout errors.

danandjen.homelinux.com anyone else getting anything different?

[woodsonoversoul]

Wow. Just for a second today it almost worked. I've been playing with php/mysql/javascript/html for a little over 5 years, and today, for the first time, I almost had something on the web. Now it looks like somehow I've taken a step back and instead of showing the proper address in the url bar it just continually loads until timeout. I forwarded port 443, but then everything went haywire and now I can't even see the server on my local network, so I un-forwarded it. If I get things back to normal I'll try forwarding it again. Back to the drawing board. Any other ideas? Anything of mine (config files, etc.) anyone needs to see?

P.S. I'm not trying to be whiny, I just get really excited thinking how close I am...

[woodsonoversoul]

After forwarding port 443, I unplugged the modem for about 20 sec and the router for 20 sec more. I thought maybe I needed re-start them that way. Could that have caused things to go haywire?