Multiple websites on Ubuntu server and IP creation

thanks ahrasis,
your email is rather timely as I thought I had the website working, but it actually has only come as far as the router login home page and after a quick google I found that I have to also configure the router.
Reading through your post there is a lot there I don't understand at the moment, so will need to get up to speed on that.
I have my local server ip as fixed, and cloudfare as the dns provider.
In my searching I never took any notice about configuring the router etc as I thought it was not relevant.

I really appreciate the post and will slowly work my way through it to better understand it, cheers

 

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