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[pimpininceylon]

I am running Unite! on my server at home and i want to be able to access it from other computers also by going to http://server:8080/unite   Am wondering if there is a setting to allow that or if not i think it should be made...Cause i want all my home computers to have access to it.. it makes it easier.  If their is a work around let me know.  Would like to know if it has seomthing to do with tomcat/apache?

[tbilisoft]

You have to have a permanent ip address and assign it to your home server/firewall.

Contact your wireless provider and ask for a permanent ip-address. Please note that it may cost additional money.

And when your computer has assigned a permanent ip - it will be accessible from outside.

Please note that it will accessible not only for a decent sort of people, it will also available for hackers and malicious software that tries to find security holes on your computer and exploit them.

So, I recommend to use firewall at home.

The most common approach is as follows:

You assign permanent ip address to your firewall, setup connection for your server and connect it to your home server which has internal ip-address and is not accessible directly from internet.

Anyone who wants to connect to your server  will access the firewall and firewall will access your home server.

Windows firewall does not do the trick. It is only for web-surfing protection. To protect server from external attacks use a decent software of hardware firewall.

[HaTaX]

You could also get a dynamic IP service from someone like No-IP:

http://www.no-ip.com/

That would allow you use use a DNS name to get to your server from the outside, the software keeps the DNS entry updated with your current external IP and you get at it from an address like "myhome.no-ip.com"

I think what he's asking about is how do you change the Apache configuration to allow access from other PCs rather then just the local system it's running on.