so .......
i got my new drive in and server set up, got the port forwarding done on the router and no go. then i find out cablevison has blocked port 80. so i go back in and change everything to 81.

opened 81 on osx firewall and on router.
my dns is http://67.85.182.81:81 (the :81 does specify port 81, no?)
virtual host config file has a listen_81

<VirtualHost _default_:81>
SeverName www.joshazzarella.com
DocumentRoot /Library/WebServer/Documents/josh
ServerAlias joshazzarella.com
</VirtualHost>

before i got a not able to connect message, now i get a 502, which i guess is a start.
more specifically:

Bad Gateway
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
Apache/2.0.52 (Gentoo/Linux) mod_ssl/2.0.52 OpenSSL/0.9.7d PHP/4.3.10 Server at domains.omnis.com Port 80

any suggestions on how to fix this? all i can find are explanations, no solutions

-j