I am trying to set up a webserver on my home computer for a small home services company. I have established a domain name, and have dns management. I have ADSL with 5 static IP adresses through SBC. My son in law and I are working together on this and we have gotten everything to work on his cable connection.
We have installed the same version of apache on all our machines, we each have two, one desktop and one laptop. When I install apache on my machines, the installation goes smoothly, however when I type
http://localhost on mine neither of them bring up the default page. We can get his machines to bring up our own test webpage when we type my domain name into internet explorer from any of the four machines. I have gotten the DNS to go as far as my gateway, so I believe we have accomplished aiming the domain at my gateway. However, this is as far as we have gotten with mine. I have tried many different ways to check my connections. When I ping either machine from the other, I get 100%. When I ping my gateway with either machine, I once again get 100%. When I ping the five static IP's from either machine I get 0%. I do not know if this is a router problem, or just a lack of understanding on my behalf. My connection I believe is PPPoE. I do not want to misrepresent myself as someone who is very knowledgable in computers. However I do have an avid interest, and have been trying to get this situation resolved for almost two weeks. I simply do not know who to turn to next, and am at a loss for what my next step might be. I would greatly appreciate and advice given. Thanks, Tim