My server issues

[The Fugitive]

Im stumped at the moment, and a bit hammered with things to get done before Thankgiving. So Ill ask if any one here has any tips on how to get this straitened out.

I have a cable modem connected to a "DECO" mesh network. It crashed a few weeks ago and I had to wipe it clean and start over.

Using whatsmyIPaddress, I get the address for the server computer, same as my main computer. Before the crash the address was something like

http://192.168.68.50:8080

With the 8080 pointing to the server, maybe a port?

How do I go about finding that 8080 number? I know its changed as it doesnt work any more. The server is running "apache". Is there setting in there that I have to configure? I'm a bit lost as most of this network stuff is new to this "old dog".

Any tips or help would be great.

If I cant get it working Ill most likely end up sticking everything on one of those free sites. Heading into retirement I cant see spending a bunch of money on a "GoDaddy" setup.

[oboe]

8080 is a port number, and its standard port for a web server so that much is correct.

Any IP address that starts with 192.168 is a device IP address on YOUR own local network.  Its not exposed to the greater internet.   I don't think "whatsmyIPaddress" should be returning a 192.168 location.

[The Fugitive]

sorry, that not the address it returned, it was posted just for the 8080 part.

The address is 66.189.11.8 So if things worked as I think they should the address should bo 66.189.11.8:8080/ for my server, but nothing. I get a time out

[oboe]

I wonder if it could be a firewall setting?  I tried pinging 66.189.11.8 and got a request timed out also.

[Vulcan]

What do you mean exactly by your 'server'?

[The Fugitive]

What do you mean exactly by your 'server'?

I have a computer my son set up as a "server" using Apache. It is nothing fancy. My son use to use it as his minecraft server for his friends and himself. I went from a Linksys network to a Deco mesh system which worked fine until I had to whip the whole thing and now I cant figure out how to allow access to the server.

I use to save my cartoons to the server and post the links on the BBS. Now I cant figure out which settings I must change to allow access to the pictures, the help site I built and even the minecraft stuff my son use to use. 

[Vulcan]

Righto, open up a command prompt and type in IPCONFIG and copy and paste the results here please (don't worry there is nothing special any one could use against you).

[The Fugitive]

Righto, open up a command prompt and type in IPCONFIG and copy and paste the results here please (don't worry there is nothing special any one could use against you).

Windows IP Configuration


Ethernet adapter Hamachi:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2620:9b::1902:970e
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::8914:7882:7a56:be86%9
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 25.2.151.14
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.0.0.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 2620:9b::1900:1

Ethernet adapter Ethernet:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2600:6c64:6c7f:c091::1001
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::def:438:d807:2219%4
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.68.50
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.252.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : fe80::3660:f9ff:fe5d:5768%4
                                       192.168.68.1

[Vulcan]

Well the good news is you are still on the same subnet as your server. You just need to figure out what the 192.168.68.x address is for the server.

If you have absolutely no clue about what IP address your server is then you could find an IP Scanner app (there are heaps of free ones, just don't get anything that looks dodgy) and scan the range 192.168.68.2 to 192.168.68.255 and it will tell you all the things it can find on your network.

[Meatwad]

I can go into my router and to the attached devices tab I can see the ip address of everything on the network whether it is an ethernet or wireless connection, and what name the device reports back as