@MontyJ
The main advantage of a service like PageKite is that there is no need to open ports in your modem/router. Opening ports is the main security risk for any local network. And unless you *think* you know what you are doing do not open any ports. So for the time being you better stick with PageKite.
And you assume wrong, apache is only as safe as you set it up. And I fear your setup at this moment is just not safe enough to use with direct access from the www. Using PageKite is what I call "security through obscurity" and in your case safe enough!
Please do not add the lines
Code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ /cops [l]
to the .htaccess file in ./web/cops but make a new file in ./web with just these 2 lines in it.
... more in the next post. (later)
Edit: later regrettably will become tomorrow. I ran into a problem. Something I know that has worked in the past, now gives me an ugly error. I have to fix this before I can tell you with confidence that it will work.
Edit2: I seem to have fixed it (don't know how, but it works).
I keep up the suspense. As it is too late here in Europe (almost an hour after midnight) to continue, you'll have to wait a few hours. I hope you don't mind?
Have a nice day!