L. Public Web Server

In the last chapter we launched🚀 our Apache web server but it could only be accessed within the network created by our home router as it has a local ip.

In order to make our server available to the public we first need to:

• set up port forwarding in our router

• get a public domain

Before we move any further a word of caution:

1. it's not a good idea opening your port from your router

2. what we're launching right now is more of a beta site as it does not have any security certificates

3. the public domain we'll be using is temporary

4. the ip address we're given by our ISP might change as usually the allocation is dynamic

I highly recommend that you check out this youtube video, it's a step by step explanation on how to set up domains.google.com and basic explanations on all the commands we're running )