How do I make a home based server?

How to open a port for my server running on my home network?

• I made a server on my own laptop on my home network. my laptop is connected wirelessly to my router. whenever i start my server in the terminal (with Python which is how I made it too) I can only use the server on my own wifi, and not on wifi somewhere else or on 3g. this is on Ubuntu by the way my computer can dual boot Ubuntu and Windows. I booted Windows 7 and opened port 443 on Windows firewall, then booted back to Ubuntu. The server still only worked on my wifi and not another. the server is based on my laptop on my particular wifi. So, I put a command in to open port 443 on my network in terminal on Ubuntu. The https server, which listens on port 443, still only worked on my home network. I don't know how to do this with port forwarding on my router's webpage. So, how do I make my server available elsewhere and what do I have to open or port forward and how? Thank you any help appreciated that is useful.

• Answer:

  As you know, you need to do port forwarding. But because you didn't give us any information as to what router you might have, we cant be any more specific. Basically, log into your router, and forward port 443 to your computer's ip address.