Hello!!! <3
So i'm trying to host my own lil website server! I already got httpd on my fedora (GNU/Linux) device, forwarded the 80 port to my router and - TADA I can access my simple index.html site from anywhere now via the IPv4 address! I even tried it on my phone at work, and I was able to reach my home server!
I have now purchased some nice domain smorty.dev rather cheaply on porkbun but - as you may find out when clicking on the link - it doesn't forward to my server yet ;(
I have already setup the A address record thingy on porkbun, which can even be verified by running ping smorty.dev in the terminal, as it retrieves the current IPv4 address of my router
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maria@fedora:~$ ping smorty.dev
PING smorty.dev (79.241.82.75) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from www.smorty.dev (79.241.82.75): icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=8.35 ms
64 bytes from www.smorty.dev (79.241.82.75): icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=6.53 ms
64 bytes from www.smorty.dev (79.241.82.75): icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=5.94 ms
^C
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smorty.dev ping statistics
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3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 5.937/6.937/8.345/1.024 ms
I searched online and found some people talking about a Windows HOSTS file, so I found the equivalent for GNU/Linux, which is /etc/hosts and that file now looks like this
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maria@fedora:~$ cat /etc/hosts
# Loopback entries; do not change.
# For historical reasons, localhost precedes localhost.localdomain:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
# See hosts(5) for proper format and other examples:
# 192.168.1.10 foo.example.org foo
# 192.168.1.13 bar.example.org bar
79.241.82.75 www.smorty.dev
127.0.0.1 www.smorty.dev
Soooo there is clearly a connection there, but the actual forwarding in the browser to my website doesn't seem to work ;(
I am *somewhat sure I exported this correctly...
IMAGE OF ROUTER INTERFACE
EDIT: I completely forgot to mention what the address records look like... and maybe they are kinda important for my problem sooo here they are!
SCREENSHOT FROM ADDRESS RECORDS
if someone here could share some advice maybe - that would be super great :)
Your domain name resolves fine for me, and it's true you'll need to set up https for it to work in a browser, but even with curl I get a timeout. Maybe you stopped running httpd?
The hosts is mostly so your computer can connect out to other websites, but doesn't matter for being able to connect to something you're serving.
Instead of httpd, maybe try out Caddy. It makes https pretty simple and free once you have a working Caddyfile.