Hi peeps and thanks for listening.
I have my own small forum which provides a small bit of enjoyment for people and am currently hosting it on my old laptop. I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 though some features have not been installed due to the age of the hardware I'm using (such as mail and ftp).
So I've decided to play around with the possibility of using my current laptop to be my webserver as it is certainly powerful enough but it is restricted by being wirelessly connected to my router.
I've installed XAMPP and have it configured, localhost brings up the relevant html page and I'm happy with this though when I forward port 80 from my old laptop to the new one, nothing can be found (after a while of searching). My domain name is pointed straight to my router and it all works well, just not when I forward port 80 to the new laptop.
Does anyone have any advice on this? Is XAMPP a good option over, say, Ubuntu 9.10 behind a virtual machine?
Current system - Windows 7 64-bit. I'm using a netgear router.
Thanks for your help,
Threep
I have my own small forum which provides a small bit of enjoyment for people and am currently hosting it on my old laptop. I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 though some features have not been installed due to the age of the hardware I'm using (such as mail and ftp).
So I've decided to play around with the possibility of using my current laptop to be my webserver as it is certainly powerful enough but it is restricted by being wirelessly connected to my router.
I've installed XAMPP and have it configured, localhost brings up the relevant html page and I'm happy with this though when I forward port 80 from my old laptop to the new one, nothing can be found (after a while of searching). My domain name is pointed straight to my router and it all works well, just not when I forward port 80 to the new laptop.
Does anyone have any advice on this? Is XAMPP a good option over, say, Ubuntu 9.10 behind a virtual machine?
Current system - Windows 7 64-bit. I'm using a netgear router.
Thanks for your help,
Threep