In the past two weeks I have published "how to" articles describing how to set up a Web server on your in-home Windows or Macintosh computer and how to obtain a domain name for that web server at little or no cost. For many people, this is all the information needed to place web pages on a home computer that anyone else can access. However, anyone with sophisticated network routers or firewalls in their homes may find that access to the web server is being blocked; anyone from the outside world cannot gain access to the web server you have installed behind the firewall/router.
Luckily, there are easy solutions for this problem. A bit of technical expertise is required. However, if you have already succeeded in setting up the web server and getting it registered with a dynamic DNS service as described in the first two articles, you will probably already possess that expertise. If so, you will find this last part to be simple.
First I need to explain some terminology.
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