Settings to make IP address publicly accessible?

[Shpigford]

This feel like it should be a really basic thing, but it's racking my brain.

I ultimately want for myself (and others) to be able to access my machine via my IP address (not the full machine, just the public stuff).

I have an AirPort Extreme that connects everything.

Right now if I try to access via my IP address it just doesn't load or connect to anything.

I assume there's some setting I just doesn't have set correctly, but I feel like I've looked through everything and just am not having any luck.

So...any ideas?

[baseballboy828]

Just to be sure:

You are in the finder on the other machine. You hit go, connect to server, and enter afp://[YOURIP]? Is this what you've tried?

[Shpigford]

Actually, I left a detail out. I'm referring to accessing it from a browser.

[baseballboy828]

What do you mean by accessing it from a browser?

[Shpigford]

It ultimately accesses the Sites folder.

Like if you go to System Prefs > Sharing > Web Sharing...the IP address it currently gives me is just my local Airport-assigned IP (which isn't publicly accessible) and if I use what is my real IP it doesn't work either.

[baseballboy828]

So, you're typing in your local IP (most likely 192.168.1.xxx) and you can't access it? Have you tried accessing it from Safari on the Mac you're sharing from?