websharing - why I cannot access my mac site?

[siw]

Have set up websharing according to my mac help.
All works fine - at home, where I made the settings.

From internet-connections other than home, I cannot access my website...
This is probably IP adress / port related, but what do I need to do?
which port to open or what settings in browser is affecting this?

Have a Tiger, use Linksys router.

[gsahli]

What you want to do is called port forwarding. Read the router manual. You want to forward requests for port 80 (http) to the local IP address of your Mac. Then, external clients will connect to the web site via http://external_IP_address.

HTH

[eric2006]

Originally Posted by siw

Have set up websharing according to my mac help.
All works fine - at home, where I made the settings.

From internet-connections other than home, I cannot access my website...
This is probably IP adress / port related, but what do I need to do?
which port to open or what settings in browser is affecting this?

Have a Tiger, use Linksys router.

There's some good port-forwarding guides here:
http://portforward.com/

You'll also need a static IP, or it will change every day or so. Some ISPs just give you one, and you need to buy it from others. There are some services that will forward traffic to a dynamic (changing) IP, just google.

You're probably accessing the website from inside your network - 192.168.x.x or something. To access it from outside, you use a different IP, like 65.34.23.56. You can find your external IP in network settings.. somewhere, or just google "my ip". (The port forwarding guides should explain this)