IcyTechie: Host Your Website using Abyss Web Server #2: Port Forwarding and replace it with your domain

Today, we will forward the port and replace it with your domain.



Forward the Ports to let others see your website

1. Open your router's configuration page, for example, my tp link router's link is tplinklogin.net.

2. Click on Forwarding (or Port Forwarding, Ports, etc, based on your router) from the menu.

3. Click "Add new"

4. Type in the following:

Port: 8080
Address: <The ipv4 address that we checked in the last post>

5. Click "Save".

6. Navigate to www.whatismyip.com

7. The IP Address shown on the website is the address of your website, for example, my address is 42.2.2.69, so my web server's website is 42.2.2.69:8080

Replace the address with a domain

1. Register a domain.

2. In the dns configuration page, add a new a record.

3. Type www as host and the address in whatismyip.com as ip.

4. Add a new a record again.

5. Type @ as host and the address in whatismyip.com as ip.

The address of your website is yourdomain.com:8080