# Hosting from Home... Anyone with networking skilz?

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**Created:** [October 20, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hosting-from-home-anyone-with-networking-skilz/329822 "2012-10-20T22:02:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Freddythunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@Freddythunder](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Freddythunder)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hosting-from-home-anyone-with-networking-skilz/329822/1 "2012-10-20T22:02:44Z")

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I have a few personal projects on the horizon that involve hosting my own server.

To start, I found a few tutorials online that say you can host files on a old laptop or whatever but I cannot find any specific information. Following all of those tutorials, I should be up and running, but I’m not.

I’ve read that cox (ISP) blocks port 80 so when I tried, I wasn’t surprised when it failed. I tried port 8080 but I think that is reserved for the router admin. I tried 8081 and 51600 and here’s the thing. I can log into my router and see the incomming connection when I use  
wget ip:port/index.html  
from a linux server so I’m making it all the way to the router, and Apache is set to listen to the port and restarted, and the window’s firewall has the port added, but it just times out on the linux side.

Anyone have any ideas what to try next?