network admin, ip addresses for webserver

[Thufir]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:40:29 +0000, Colin Law wrote:


> Many (most?) routers require an IP address to be specified when setting
> up port forwarding, so the server needs a fixed ip address.
> Can your router take a host name instead?
> 
> Colin



That sounds like a good idea, I'll try that.


I'm able to ping the computer, but, to shift questions a bit, how, in 
general, do I know, or establish, that the server itself is serving web 
pages?


Browse to localhost?  (The server runs a flavor of SuSe, so it's little 
different, in terms of package management, or I'd already have done 
this.  Just want to go in the right direction, not down a false path.)


thanks,

Thufir