Newbie wanting to access wordpress from external networks

[MarcusLauk]

Hello! I am having my own little project on my hands, I am studying IT and newly learned about how to create your own wordpress server/site. And I want to be able to access it from external networks or let other people do. How can I be able to do this, I would love some help with this project

 

-Marcus Løkken

[Jarsky]

When you say Wordpress Server, do you have some sort of weird Wordpress like Serverpress, or is it installed on a Webserver like Apache/Nginx/IIS/etc... ?

 

Basically you just need to forward ports 80 & 443 (if you're using SSL) on your Router, to the IP address of the machine that is running Wordpress.

Portforward.com is a good resource if you aren't sure how to do it

[MarcusLauk]

Just now, Jarsky said:

When you say Wordpress Server, do you have some sort of weird Wordpress like Serverpress, or is it installed on a Webserver like Apache/Nginx/IIS/etc... ?

 

Basically you just need to forward ports 80 & 443 (if you're using SSL) on your Router, to the IP address of the machine that is running Wordpress.

It`s a lamp server so it`s apache then and it`s downloaded from the whole wordpress.org/latest.zip from their website to my linux machine

[Jarsky]

5 minutes ago, MarcusLauk said:

It`s a lamp server so it`s apache then and it`s downloaded from the whole wordpress.org/latest.zip from their website to my linux machine

 

 

Right.

So I assume that you're able to access the install from your local machine with something like http://ip.address.of.linux.box

That means that your Linux firewall is already configured to allow the Apache web traffic (Port 80) through.

 

So you'll need to do the Portforwarding I mentioned above, to allow traffic from your local network to the internet.

Also, do you have a static IP address? If so, you can get a Domain name from somewhere like GoDaddy, and you need to set the "A Record" to your IP address.

If you have a dynamic IP address (one that changes) then you'd be best to get a "dynamic dns" like dyndns or noip. Both dyndns & noip have applications you can run which will always keep the domain address (e.g myblog.noip.com) up to date.

 

[MarcusLauk]

I am not really looking to go into the whole domain name, just wanted to be able to access through my external ip and the port forwarding helped. I am able to connect to it now, thanks for the helps and future tips with the domains and ip things. I will probably get into that later, but am still on the early stages of these things. Anyways thanks for the help ^^

[Jarsky]

9 minutes ago, MarcusLauk said:

I am not really looking to go into the whole domain name, just wanted to be able to access through my external ip and the port forwarding helped. I am able to connect to it now, thanks for the helps and future tips with the domains and ip things. I will probably get into that later, but am still on the early stages of these things. Anyways thanks for the help ^^

 

No problem. You may find the noip dynamic domain to be helpful still - its a free service