Total Newbie - Help!!!

Hi gRoberts,

It's likely that neither computer has an acctual IP address on the Internet... more likely that they are configured to be running on local IP's.

Think of it like this, your router has 2 IP address's; One on the Internet, and one for your local network. Both computers connected to the router, would only need 1 IP address, and that is the IP on the local network, as the router is managing the Internet connections for both of them...

Thus, if you were to put the local IP address of your Linux box into your web-browser, you should get the correct page up... I suspect that the Internet IP address of the router is being hidden from the local network, and thus it will just timeout when you try to connect to that IP address...

If you plan to run a web-hosting service from your broadband connection, you will need to get Internet IP addresses for each box you want people to be able to access from the Internet... at the moment, if people tried to load up your IP address, they will be trying to load pages from your router... which just won't work.

Hope that helps. (and makes sense)

 

As well, when accessing whm on port 2087, make sure you use https