Setting up a web folder

[Banderon]

Hey everyone. Trouble. =(

I wanna set up a webserver. I went into my LinkSys router setup, set port 80~80 to point to this comp's IP on the network, and disabled "Block WAN Request:" in the filter setup.

Now, I can see the index, but no one else can. So basically, no one outside the LAN can see the htdocs folder.

Any ideas?

 

[Soybomb]

What errors do others viewing the page get? Are they getting an error from the webserver or because they cannot reach the webserver?

What os/webserver?

 

[Banderon]

Ok, I've worked the problem down to this. To enable port forwarding, I need to disable DHCP. But then, I'm not too sure on how to give comp's static IPs. It's in Network Settings / TCP/IP, isn't it? But it doesn't have net access when I do that... I dunno. =\

I'm kinda new to networking, and especially when I have to configure the internet/ports and stuff.

 

[Soybomb]

For statics be sure to set the ip address, netmask, name servers, and gateway. I suspect you haven't set a gateway.

 

[Banderon]

Gateway is just the router's IP, isn't it?