Can I host a web site on my home computer? - web

I have developed a web application in Oracle APEX, which I have thoroughly tested and it is running fine on my home PC. I also have bought a domain name. Now I want to know how can I connect that domain name to my home computer, so that anyone on internet can see my site ?
For the time being, just forget about the domain name. I just want to know how can I connect to my home server from internet using just the IP address (no domain required) of my computer? if anyone can reach my computer, we will have access to my web server/site.
Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks in advance.

These two links will help you get started. Its hard, but is possible. I don't know if the time is worth the couple bucks for a domain and all the support that comes with it.
http://www.thesitewizard.com/domain/website-without-domain-name.shtml
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZqCEHRqY38
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Find out whether web app or server is compromised

I'm an rather experienced web developer and have Plesk Onyx running on my dedicated server. It features 2FA via Google Authenticator. Inside Plesk, I added multiple WordPress-based webpages of mine and friends of mine. All of these WordPress installations are securely installed by Plesk and hardened access to by moving the admin area, globally disabling comments, 2FA, and so on.
Now a few days ago, a friend told me he was seeing massive ads on my webpage. Since the server also yields my company's page, that is perhaps something to take serious - so did I. However, I couldn't reproduce the ads or the pop ups, etc. - at all -, neither on my Windows machines (10 and Server 2016), nor on any mobile or laptop device. Yesterday, I was viewing my webpage with a friend of mine (desktop PC). And all of a sudden, ads are shown up when he clicks links in my WP menu and stuff like this. Very pushy, very much, absolutely... unacceptable.
I introduced myself as rather experienced web developer. However, I don't know how to tackle this. Whether my server was actually hacked or compromised, some WordPress plugin is messing up with ads (however, friend found problems on multiple sites that are not using the same plugins), or whatever. I think Plesk and WP are both strong and shouldn't be compromised that easy. Besides, I didn't notice any further.
How to tackle this?
Did you try Revisium Antivirus to scan your websites? It is available on Plesk extensions. I had a similar issue and Revisium Antivirus found all the files that were infected.
Also, check your friend's PC (web browser) for malware. There is some malware (hidden software) which can run adds or add strange links to your website. So, in that case, there is nothing to do with your server or websites.

Why website not working with all internet service providers in my country?

My website is working with some ISP while it is not working with others. Also not working from other countries.
The app is hosted at our company. Developed using sharepoint asp.net.
The app works at my home.
But if I visit the website at my brother's home who is registered to different ISP, the website opens and a login dialog appears. When entering correct username and password then submit , textboxs cleared and dialog come again.
The problem is happening with many visitors.
I just want to know what would be the problem! Does anyone faced such problem before?
I checked all IIS restrictions. There is no restrictions made.
I created a new app using sharepoint with login page and it works great.
somebody said that users with public ip can access the site while others with dhcp cannot. Can somebody explain that !
Some ISPs have transparent proxies in use. And some of them are accidentally (or even intentionally) broken and cache more, than they should. You can check whether that's the problem:
Set up your server to also allow https and then use that. You should move to https for privacy reasons anyways, so just do it now ;)
This way, the proxy can't do anything but to pass the data between client and server unmodified.
If that is not an option: Use tcpdump/wireshark/other-sniffer on both - client and server - at the same time and compare the logs. Did the second access even make it to the server?
Do you have a laptop/tablet/smartphone with which you can access the web server? Try moving that laptop from one location to the other and check, whether it works with that one laptop using one ISP and fails with the same laptop on the other ISP.
This should be a comment, but I do not have enough to post it as such.
Are sure that it is not a browser issue?
Is the login dialog from SharePoint, your app or the browser itself?
If it is from your app, can you debug it or write the log-in attempts in a log?

Finding who is hosting a particular site

Is there any way of finding out where a website is being hosted?
looking at the source code of a website, is there anyway of finding where the site is being hosted ?
The code of a website has nothing to do with the host itself unless the programmer put a comment in the code of where he hosted is website but that would make no sense at all :)
If you want to know more information about a specific website go to:
www.whois.com (if the host is shared host you might know who is the hosting company)
If you want to know the location of the website go to:
http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/
Insert the website you want to trace. Example google.com is located in:
IP address state: California
IP address city: Mountain View
I think this is what you want to know at least judging by your question.
looking at the source code of a website, is there anyway of finding
where the site is being hosted ?
By just looking at the source code, you cannot find the web hosting provider hosting a particular website.
Is there any way of finding out where a website is being hosted?
There are multiple ways to find the hosting provider of any website.
You can try online free services like Who is Hosting this Website? to find out the hosting provider of any website.
You can open your command prompt and type "tracert ~domain-name~".
In the tracert report, the last hope will determine who is hosting
this website. Usually, name of the web hosting provider is written
as a unique identifier name like "11.22.33-accuwebhosting-com".

not able to access mywebsite in webbrowser

my website opens with xx.xxx.xxx.xxx IP address till friday it was working fine..after wards not able view the site in webbrowser...what could be the problem ? how can we solve it?
My server with this IP is working and can able to view the updated data in database ..but not able to view, or open the page of website.before the website under IIS configuration was stooped and now started again..still no use..am couldnt view Login page at all.My application was developed in classic asp long back.Kindly give me any suggestion to this...its very urgent...
I tried browsing the website in IIS manger(server) .It showing page cannot be displayed.
Thanks in advance.
First, Don't Panic. Staying calm can avoid further damage.
While it's hard to tell what could be the problem, the first thing you can do is to "ping" the domain from terminal.Can you login remotely? "wget" (on linux) will download the files from website, and could help you see if the files on the site are still accessible. Check from different browsers or machines, if possible. I'm no expert in asp or IIS, so won't advice on that front. But once I had faced the same situation with my website. So I just called up the hosting service provider, and it turned out it was their problem, and they brought the server online. If it's okay from their end, you might have changed some configurations in your server or application or there might be some up-gradation changing parameters, or even an accidental deletion/ moving/ renaming of files. Just try to remember what are the things you did with your server and application, before it went down, and also ask your server administrator. That will surely help you understand the problem better, if not help to solve it right away.
Good Luck.

Giving users access to a web site in virtual server running on a laptop

im running a sharepoint services website on my laptop using a virtual server on the same laptop. i need to show other people (on external machines) the website in a development stage. i have sent them the same address i am using to open and ive given them their own log ons- they work on my machine.
the problem is that the site comes up with the IE cannot display the webpage even before they get to the log on stage. ive only been using sharepoint for a few days and dont really know my way around- can anyone help please
Try to use the IIS to map your internal server outside.

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