Hello, my question goes towards, how to host a website using your own home workstation

My network layout:

Cable modem, connected to a Linksys router

5 workstations, (one workstation running windows 2003 server with IIS installed, and running the web page) I could access the webpage using LAN, but what needs to be done in order for others to access it over the world wide web ?

Thank you for your help

You need first to subscribe to a fixed IP address and register a domain name. Port forwarding should only forward port 80, You need to configure a document root setting for each domain using the domain name as the server name for each, and use name resolution rather than address for the virtual domains. I find the Apache server is better handling this. For the internal machines to access it by domain name you need to set up dns on the server pointing both domains to the internal server IP. You must NOT allow the dns to appear on the web, your ISP will jump on you, and have been known to cut off a service for this.

Log into the Linksys administration and enable port forwarding on your linksys router to port 80.

First you need to set your server pc with a static ip address.

You then need to forward port 80 to that ip address (server) on the router.

This tells the routers firewall to allow traffic through to the server on port 80.

u can have a public ip ,or u can use DDNS which is free and u willbe able to acess ur website ie ur workstation as any normal site.u should forward all the http rewuest to the server

It would be a lot easier to pay for hosting.

http://www.getawebpage.net

That site lists the best website hosting companies.