Hello, Ben; Thanks for all your advices. I'll try to figure them out one by one and keep sharing my process with you. Windows 7 home premium does have FireWall. I can turn it off/on though. I have residential internet service now, Fi-Optics connection.
Thanks again; You have a nice day. Susan On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Ben Johnson <b...@indietorrent.org> wrote: > > > On 10/1/2012 3:15 PM, Cheerful Gao wrote: > > * > > Hello, > > I want to build a website http://www.lankaoshenli.com/ and host this > > website using Apache http server on my PC with Windows 7 home premium. I > > need provide a full server name during the server installaton according > > to the document. Should this full server name be the same as the website > > name: www.lankaoshenli.com <http://www.lankaoshenli.com>; > > Yes. > > or should I > > register the full server name seperately? what is the relation between > > the website name and the full server name? > > The "website name" is a "domain name", technically. And in most cases, > if not all, Apache's "ServerName" directive should match the > fully-qualified domain name (e.g., www.lankaoshenli.com). > > Before you attempt to host this website on your home PC, I recommend > familiarizing yourself with the potential pitfalls of such a setup. > > Firstly, If you have residential Internet service, chances are that you > are assigned a dynamic IP address that changes periodically. If this is > the case and your home IP address ever changes, your site will be > unreachable until you update your domain's DNS records to point to the > new IP address. An untenable setup, for certain. > > The solution is to pay for a static IP address (some ISPs charge as > little as $1/mo. for this service, and some much more). If you have > "business class" Internet service, you may already have a static IP > address. If you're not sure, call your ISP and ask. > > Secondly, if your Windows 7 computer sits behind a firewall (such as > that included with most cable and DSL routers), you must forward ports > 80 and 443 to the correct IP address on your internal network (LAN). How > to do this depends entirely on your networking hardware. And, for the > port-forwarding rules to remain effective indefinitely, you must also > configure your router to assign a static IP address to your Windows 7 > computer (by MAC address). You must also permit incoming connections on > these ports in your Windows Firewall configuration. (Windows 7 Home > Premium *does* have a Firewall, right?) I believe that the Apache > installer will modify the Windows Firewall automatically, but I could be > wrong. > > Finally, don't forget to modify the DNS entries associated with your > domain so that the appropriate "A-records" (that for the www subdomain, > at a minimum) point to your home IP address. (For most configurations, a > quick trip to http://whatismyip.com from the computer on which Apache is > running will reveal the correct IP address to use in the DNS A-records.) > > > Thanks. > > > > Susan > > * > > You're welcome. And please bear in mind that most of the above is > completely outside the scope of what is typically provided in the way of > Apache support. You're delving into some non-trivial networking topics > that are not Apache-specific. > > Good luck! > > -Ben > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
