I'm trying to host my own website on my computer, I've installed apache. I was told I need to allow access to port 80, I have panda platinum 7 firewall. I'm not sure how to make a rule for this, i went to "configure" and "advanced connection rules" I click on the protocols and ports tab, there are two protocols that say things about ports, TCP and UDP, when I change one, it changes the other automatically, on communication dirrection I selected "inbound" in local ports and remote ports I selected "port 80" in both, I didn't know what to do in the addresses tab, so it's on all. when I type my ip into the address bar it says connection refused. What have I done wrong?

Start apache. Go to your browser and type in "localhost". If you get a directory listing instead of an auto-search or "page not found", apache is working. In your firewall, you must configure port 80 for bidirectional, TCP traffic. Bidirectional is important here. Your address is your IP or domain name. Have a static IP? This will not work very well without one.

it was the bidirectional thing that was gettin' me, thanks.