I live in a flat and most of us share a wireless internet connection with the bloke downstairs as it's quite expensive getting a new landline connected.

 

I'm running an apache server locally and I obviously share the same IP as everyone else on the network. Is there any way to make my work accessible remotely? I haven't even come up with a method on how to do this so any help is appreciated!

 

I'm running Linux Ubuntu and OpenSUSE if that helps.

 

Thank you

How about port forwarding on your router? Let port 80 go straight through to your network IP and you should be able to get to your webserver.

Thanks for the response. The problem is I don't have access to the router as I'm sharing the connection with the person who does...

Thanks for the response. The problem is I don't have access to the router as I'm sharing the connection with the person who does...

 

Sorry, Gibbs, but it isn't possible then. You need to have access to the router. Other way is to have a dedicated IP.

You could VPN somewhere and redirect traffic in from that vpn endpoint, would be kind of slow and not particularly reliable though.

This is an old thread, so probably of no use to the OP any more. For the record however, bear in mind that some ISPs get really touchy if they find you're running a server on your broadband connection. It's okay if it's only a light bit of work or for your own use, but no good for serving to the masses. At least you should consult whoever else suspension of service might affect! And if you could also talk to them, as mentioned above, have them: (1) assign your NIC a static IP on the local network; (2) open port 80 on any firewalls; (3) do a port forward on external port 80 to port 80 on your static IP. You might also want to consider port 22 similarly, so you can administer the server remotely via SSH too.