Windows XP Pro for web page server?

does anyone have any experence with using window's XP Pro to host a website? I'd like to do this but I'm having trouble because my ISP blocks my port 80 and my domain does not allow me to do port redirection. I can however point to another site that can then point to my home computer on another port, I can't find a cheap/good site to do this any suggestions? Even if you can't help if you know a good tutorial for this setup it would help a lot, this is my first real website plus its got the added dificulty of a blocked port.

Compaq R3000T (CTO)
P4 Desktop 3.0GHz w/HT
2 X 1024MB RAM
Radeon 9600 128MB
60GB 7,200RPM HD
AquaMark3: 24,257, 3DMark03: 3,115

 

I'm running a few websites on a desktop of mine, but I have full access to my ports. I know that GoDaddy.com has pretty good prices for domain names and free domain forwarding if you need it.

What you could do is this:

1. Get a domain name from GoDaddy.com
2. Get a free domain from Dyndns.org (ie. example.dyndns.org)
3. Have the free domain point to your ip address
4. Foward your actual domain to the free one using a different port (ie. realdomain.com ---> example.dyndns.org:123)
5. Setup your webserver to listen to port 123

I don't know if this works since i've never tried it.

Otherwise, check out this guide from Dyndns.org, they claim that this should get around a blocked port.

https://www.dyndns.org/support/kb/archives/redirecting_webhttp_requests.html

Cheers,
Alex

 

Thank you for your suggestion, its hard to get replys on this subject because its not a problem for most. I've actully been trying to exactly has you discribed with the same service from that site. So far I've been unable to get it to work at all, Im going to put more time into it this week end. I have a page on my computer running, I also am lisening on a certain port, I'm having trouble configuring the dyndns site to actully forward to a certain port. I know that their free service does that but they give no directions on how to do it, I'd even pay for the other service if I was sure it would work.

Compaq R3000T (CTO)
P4 Desktop 3.0GHz w/HT
2 X 1024MB RAM
Radeon 9600 128MB
60GB 7,200RPM HD
AquaMark3: 24,257, 3DMark03: 3,115

 

Sorry it's not working dude... that's all the inspiration I got. Feel free to email me if you want someone to help you out. I'll do the best I can.

[email protected]

 

I will probaby take you up on that offer once I feel I have things set correctly on the dyndns site, I might have done something wrong with my setting on the computer, its set to the port numebr and my router is set to forward the port i picked to this computer.

Compaq R3000T (CTO)
P4 Desktop 3.0GHz w/HT
2 X 1024MB RAM
Radeon 9600 128MB
60GB 7,200RPM HD
AquaMark3: 24,257, 3DMark03: 3,115

 

I've looked a bit more into this... Using DynDNS's WebHop or MyWebHop won't do what you want it to. WebHop makes it so that if you had a really butt ugly domain name, you could make it a bit easier with their own hostnames. MyWebHop makes it so that you can redirect one of your own hostnames associated with your domain name to a different URL. (Not sure why you'd need to do that though...)

I think the only option is using the GoDaddy.com suggestion I had earlier. If you want I can test it out with my webserver for you to see if it works. Send me an email and let me know what you think.