Problem with router and home server

I am in the middle of setting up a home server using my IP address and I have realized that only those in my Lan can see the page, where those who aren't get an message that says the page cannot be displayed. I think it might have somethign to do with the router masking my IP address. Thank you for helping.

This has been bugging me for the past year now because I've really wanted to set up a server on my home pc because its free and i can have as much space as my computer has. but i can seem to get this working.

 

Depends on the router, of course -- check its documentation.

Many home routers do use address translation -- they'll assign an internal IP address in the series 192.168.0.xxx to each machine in the LAN. The outside world sees only the IP address used by the router, which is probably assigned to it by your ISP.

Your domain registrar may be able to offer some suggestions as to how you can point your domain to your IP address.