Go from localhost to public site.

So my hotel works, the site works, everything works just fine.

Issue is, the guide i followed did things using Helicon Ape and as soon i change the hotel URL to something else than Localhost it says the trial is expired and i need to purchase a 48$ license...

Can anyone teach or show me how to make this public? I have a domain with DNS access so there is that, just need to do this without the use of Helicon Ape (which does something with .htaccess)

You could try using a web.config along side the .htaccess