Servers and proxies?

Newb question!

Bear in mind that the operative term in this message is 'Not for
profit' and 'Free'.

Alright, so my friend has started a sort of Drama club and he asked me
to make him a web site for it. Simple.

Now I, being a poor misguided neophyte, want to set up a simple Apache
server on one of their extra computers via their Cable connection.
Mostly just for kicks, however free webspace that doesn't destroy my
carefully validatable with advertisements is at such a premium...

So, I resurected one of their busted windows-98 machines and plan to
hook it up to their cable on Friday, if possible. And of course find
out if they have a static IP, etc.

Unfortunantly, they use AOL as their ISP. This makes me nervous
because I wonder if AOL's Proxies (which I found out about yestreday)
will mess up people's connection to our mini-server. Am I worrying
about nothing in my ignorance? Can we let people connect to the server
through the real IP? Do we hav to get the proxy's IP?

Thanks in advance.

try setting up apache on port 999 and download no-ip(google to find it)
and make somting.no-ip.com piont ot port 999 of your ip, normaly no problems.