[CryptiniteDemon]

Okay, I have a router and a small network on the inside of it.

Now, how do I configure my router (D-link Di-524) to transfer into that apache server to serve up my web page?

say my ip is 65.22.100.1 or something
and the internal IP of my apache server is 192.168.1.101

How do I get it to where I can type in the 65.22.100.1 ip into a web browser and my router routes to the 192.168.1.101 address to serve the web page?

I'm able to get internal addressing just fine. I just wanna know how to have access from outside my private network.

[skinnywhiteboy]

You have to forward port 80 to the local IP of the server, in this case 192.168.1.101. Assuming things are configured correctly on the server end, your web page should appear. Question though, is your server getting that local IP from the Router. If so, probably a good idea to assign it a static outside of the DHCP pool. Also, is your public IP static? If not, your IP may be subject to change without your knowledge, and then your web page will stop working again.

[JDK224]

if you dont have a static you could use a service like dyndns so that when you IP changes, it wont cause your visitors to get a blank page.

[skinnywhiteboy]

Dynamic DNS http://www.dyndns.org is a great service, and a lot of routers these days have a function that allows your network to connect to their servers to keep your IP up to date.

[JDK224]

if the router doesnt have that capibility, you can download an agent from their site that will poll your external IP at a set interval then update that on their site. so basically you can set it and forget it.

[JohnWill]

I wouldn't use the router's DynDNS client anyway. It doesn't update the free service in the required 30 days and you start getting nasty-grams from DynDNS. The DynDNS client can run on any computer behind your router and solve the issue, it doesn't have to be on the one with the web server if that's not convenient.