Explain the steps required to make your website accessible t

Explain the steps required to make your website accessible to public on the internet? And if you decided to run the website on your local machine explain what do you need to do to accomplish that

Solution

You need to do 2 things:

configure nameservers (probably in some control panel of the registrar from which you bought the domain) to point the A record to the (static) IP address of your router (i.e. its external address) - I hope by \"I changed my IP address to static\" you mean that you contacted your ISP and requested a static IP address from them, not that you configured your machine\'s local IP to be static (though the latter is needed too)

Secondly, you go to your router\'s configuration page (see your router instructions, usually it\'s something like http://10.0.0.1:8080/) and configure Port Forwarding - i.e. you need to tell your router to take all requests which come to its external interface on port 80 and redirect them into internal network to the IP of your server, then take the response and send it back as if it was generated by the router. So for external world the responses will be coming from the external IP of the router. To which IP your DNS records point to. Easy-peasy.

Also, some ISPs, to protect users, block all incoming connections to the client\'s IPs or only to some common ports. So the access from outside may not work even if everything is configured correctly. You will need to check with your ISP to figure out how to remove port blocking.