Galaktican

I do.

https://galaktican.no-ip.org:50/dudemanblog/
It’s the Videos menu item that is the culprit.

You’ll need to forward port 80 to your computer’s ip using your routers administration, typically accessed using your browser. This will allow your web server to be accessible to the outside world.

You can use a service like no-ip.com to translate your web server’s IP address to a name.

Administrate your domain name you purchased to forward any requests to your local computers new no-ip.com name or whatever service you use for DNS translation.

It’s not impossible.

I know for sure Joomla works on IIS 7. I’ve installed it without issues. But, I can’t speak intelligently about IIS 6.

Using no-ip means there is no need for a static IP address. That’s the whole point of it. If the router assigns a new IP address, no-ip tracks the change automatically so that your URLs always point to your server.

I don’t mean a static IP from the ISP. I’m talking about a static IP on the local lan. If you’re going to forward ports to an IP address in the local lan you should makes sure that the same IP address is being assigned to same computer everytime.

You’ll need to change or make an entry in your routers configuration to forward port 80 to your webserver ip address. When requests come in to your internet facing IP address your router will know to forward that request to your webserver.

Once this is setup, you should be able to go to https://<yourIPaddress&gt; and your webserver will respond. Then you can work on setting up the noip part so you wont have to use an ip address.

You should also consider making your webserver ip address static. It would not be good if your router assigned your webserver a new ip address which will break the forwarding of port 80.

Google is your friend here.

That makes complete sense. Thank you for the reply. I don’t mean to make a stink.

I had sort of a similar problem on my little blog site. I’m by no means a Linux or Apache expert and I’m sure this is a huge security risk, which you should consider, but…

I got Extplorer working on my webserver and used that to upload and expand my zipped up wordpress folder. Apache should have full rights to the files.

https://extplorer.net/

One option might be to change your router settings to forward port 80 traffic to your computer’s local IP address. Then, open up a browser from any computer on the internet to your internet facing IP address.

Another option would be to forward port 3389 (i think that’s right) to your local IP address. Then, from a computer on the internet, remote into your computer and show the site within the RDP session.

This is totally possible. That is how I run my blog, from my home computer on my dynamic IP assigned by Comcast. You do not have to have a static IP to host a website. (it might make things easier, but, not absolutely necessary)

I use NO-IP.org’s free Dynamic DNS service. The only issue to their service is I have to log in about every month and refresh my account settings or they will eventually delete it. Another bummer is whatever name you want your site will have a .no-ip.org at the end of it. These are the prices you pay for a free service like this.

I’m sure there are plenty of other free services that do the same thing.

So, basically what this does is install a small program or service on your computer that talks to no-ip.org’s DNS servers to make sure that whatever the name you provide them correlates to your external IP address.

My blog is small and only a few friends and family members go to it. So, I’m not as worried about security as others would. No one would recommend this type of setup for a commercial site.

https://galaktican.no-ip.org:60/wordpress
is how my address looks. The :60 is because I’m running this particular site on another webserver from my main blog. (yes, you can have multiple webservers)

I’m probably creating more questions than I’m answering here. I’m by no means an expert in this stuff, I know just about enough to get me in lots of trouble. Google is your friend here.

Anti-virus
Firewall
Correct permissions on files/folders
Lock down unneeded ports, only open port 80
Change admin password regularly
etc

That is not dns related. You’ll have to configure your router. It depends on which brand your using (Linksys/NetGear, etc) but typically
https://192.168.1.1/
or
https://192.168.0.1/
gets you to a login prompt.

Once in, you’ll need to forward port 80 to the ip address for your computer. Now, this leads to the need to make sure the same ip address is assigned to your computer and there are several options for that depending on your brand/make/model of router.

Consider security, also. Make sure the necessary files and folders have the correct permissions, anti-virus, don’t have other ports open, etc.

I’m no expert in this stuff. Google is your friend here.

Browser incompatibility or it may have something to do with the codec that my Windows Phone 7 is using to create its hi-res mp4 or something like that.

It seems to be working just fine with the mp4’s I’m creating in Microsoft Movie Maker. (I didn’t even know it could create mp4s)

There are so many characters involved in making this embed video technology work and I’m far from an expert in any of it. I’m just standing on the shoulders of giants and riding the wave man.

Thank you and everyone else for your time and help on this.

Although, I still don’t understand why the first few video don’t work I have many, many workarounds and options available to me. I think we can call this resolved for now.
If I do find out exactly why these specific videos from my smart phone don’t seem to work I’ll be sure to post my findings.

I noticed you are also getting to your website through some free service over port 60? I haven’t seen that before.

This isn’t my main blog. I’m hosting my own webserver using no-ip.com’s free service to take care of dns. In order to just play with my Raspberry Pi without effecting my main webserver, I’m running it through port 60.

That’s what I did, actually. I used Zune to copy the video file from the phone to my computer.

I just added the same video as a link to my last two video attempt posts and the 1280×720 video does play for me in IE10 but, not Chrome Version 28.0.1500.95 or Firefox 22.
You can right click and save the 1280×720 video and it plays for me fine. I’m stumped.

Nice find with the IE11 test. I’m at work right now. I will do more testing with other browsers and versions as soon as I get home. Thank you so much to everyone who has looked into this.

I did just take another 10 second 1280×720 video with my phone and uploaded it. Unfortunatly, this latest one doesn’t play, either.

I’ve been searching and searching. Is there a link to rules of this forum so we can know what’s allowed and what isn’t?

It might be helpful to include this in your curt, “full stop” posts.