Hello!!! <3
So i’m trying to host my own lil website server! I already got httpd on my fedora (GNU/Linux) device, forwarded the 80 port to my router and - TADA I can access my simple index.html site from anywhere now via the IPv4 address! I even tried it on my phone at work, and I was able to reach my home server!
I have now purchased some nice domain smorty.dev rather cheaply on porkbun but - as you may find out when clicking on the link - it doesn’t forward to my server yet ;(
I have already setup the A address record thingy on porkbun, which can even be verified by running ping smorty.dev in the terminal, as it retrieves the current IPv4 address of my router
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maria@fedora:~$ ping smorty.dev
PING smorty.dev (79.241.82.75) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.smorty.dev (79.241.82.75): icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=8.35 ms
64 bytes from www.smorty.dev (79.241.82.75): icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=6.53 ms
64 bytes from www.smorty.dev (79.241.82.75): icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=5.94 ms
^C
--- smorty.dev ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 5.937/6.937/8.345/1.024 ms
I searched online and found some people talking about a Windows HOSTS file, so I found the equivalent for GNU/Linux, which is /etc/hosts and that file now looks like this
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maria@fedora:~$ cat /etc/hosts
# Loopback entries; do not change.
# For historical reasons, localhost precedes localhost.localdomain:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
# See hosts(5) for proper format and other examples:
# 192.168.1.10 foo.example.org foo
# 192.168.1.13 bar.example.org bar
79.241.82.75 www.smorty.dev
127.0.0.1 www.smorty.dev
Soooo there is clearly a connection there, but the actual forwarding in the browser to my website doesn’t seem to work ;(
I am *somewhat sure I exported this correctly…
IMAGE OF ROUTER INTERFACE
EDIT: I completely forgot to mention what the address records look like… and maybe they are kinda important for my problem sooo here they are!
SCREENSHOT FROM ADDRESS RECORDS
if someone here could share some advice maybe - that would be super great :)
There is so many things wrong with this post…
You have become the classic case of knowing enough to be dangerous.
Please start by closing off port 80. Do not ever expose anything to the internet without proper security measures. You want to use https (so port 443) and you should consider if you really need to expose it at all. My guess is that your browser is not allowing plain http traffic since it is a security nightmare. (Someone could man in middle it and take control of your browser plus there is lots of information your browser sends to the server) If you still want a public server you can use caddy in a container on a preferably dedicated device. You don’t want to just run a service from your main device since if it gets exploited you are in trouble. httpd is not industry standard (although you can use it) so I would be careful about blindly trusting it. You want a multilayer defense with possibly some sort of rate limiting to stop bots from destroying it.