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I'm trying to set up my first server and these are the components I have set up so far:Latest version of ubuntu, XAMPP, under System>Administration>Network Tools when I preform a port scan port 80 comes back open to www, a domain name hosted with dyndns.com, and my wireless router connecting to dyndns.com. When I try to connect to the domain they gave me the browser times out before anything loads. What am I missing?/What can I double check? Thanks to all in advance. Dan

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Belongs on SU? – Andrew Coleson Sep 12 '09 at 6:15
Whoa! Alright! when I type in the address I got from dyndns.com into an external computer's browser it tries to connect to my localhost page!! It says it can't, "establish a connection to the server" but the url changes to "localhost/musicneverstopped/index.php"; which is where I'm trying to get to! So now, how do I get it to connect to the server? Where could mistakes lie? Seems like there's a mis-configuration in the software. Thanks to all in advance – danwoods Sep 15 '09 at 13:15
It's like the server doesn't realize it's been connected to the internet... – danwoods Sep 15 '09 at 13:49
But it's running fine on my local machine (the actual server itself)... – danwoods Sep 15 '09 at 14:04
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Your router needs to forward port 80 traffic to your computer, and any host-based firewall needs to allow port 80 incoming traffic.

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I am trying to set up a server for a single website. I believe I already have the port forwarded. When I go to my router's admin page and it's port forwarding options I see this set as the only port forwarded... # Service Name Start Port End Port Server IP Address:: 1 HTTP 80 80 192.168._._ – danwoods Sep 12 '09 at 11:39
So my router says it is forwarded. Is there a way to check? – danwoods Sep 12 '09 at 11:40
Visit your external IP in a browser while running Wireshark and see if the traffic is getting to your machine. If it is and it's still timing out, your OS's firewall might be blocking it. – Andrew Coleson Sep 13 '09 at 19:41
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