[Sluglug] Apache Server on Resnet

[Erich]

Hello again,

 I've got DynDNS running as per all of your kind suggestions. I even have
the apache server up and running - you can check out the horribly, horribly
under construction site at http://timothytoo.dyndns.org right now if you're
on ResNet.

 Originally, I asked to be able to serve a web page only over ResNet - and
that's what I got. But I've broadened my horizons. I want to go global with
this page. What are my options? The server is currently set to "Listen 80",
and the server name is set to timothy.dyndns.org. Someone suggested using
https on point 443 - I could do that, but I have absolutely no idea how to
set up an https server. Getting the standard set up took me a solid day of
frustrated google'ing, but maybe it's not that much more difficult to go the
extra step. And if it's the only way, then it's the only way.

 Also, and this is kind of scary to even admit this over any sort of online
communication (but safer than asking on IRC)... I'm having trouble setting
up iptables. The default conf for the program seems to be very, very
strange, and when I added the lines I saw on an online tutorial of how to
set it up, the program failed to load. Basically, I want iptables to allow
port 80 (or maybe 443 if I end up going with that), 22 for ssh, I want to be
able to ping it, and I want to be able to play a few online games I have -
one of which requires UDP and TCP protocol on the same port. Everything else
can be blocked, as far as I'm concerned. Well, I need one port for
bittorrent, for when I do that. 6881, that is, isn't it?

 So yeah - how can I get this server to be seen outside of ResNet, and where
can I find out how to correctly configure iptables?

Thanks a bunch - this mailing list has been incredibly informative.
~Erich Blume