Just added router and now cannot connect to web site from outside

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Lloyd Sheen

I just added a router and now I cannot (or anyone else) connect to my web
site. It is a D-Link. I have been looking at the configuration screens
(when I attempt to connect to just my IP address it goes to the admin login
screen).

Any ideas?

Thank
LS
 
You have to forward your http port ( usually 80 )
to the IP for the box which hosts your web server.




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David said:
This is not really a question for this group...


You need to forward the ports to your web server. (Port 80, TCP)

You can find the address of the web server by going to a command prompt
and typing ipconfig



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Thanks I know that. I have been trying all morning to fix this problem and
thought that since most of the people who habitate this forum use IIS
someone might know or be able to lead me to the solution.

I have port forwarded, turned off the Vista Firewall and still no go.

LS
 
re:
!> This is not really a question for this group...

Actually, since web server problems concern ASP.NET, it is.

ASP.NET is a big technological mish-mash.

We have to deal with many technologies.
Configuring web servers is one of them.




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Juan T. Llibre said:
You have to forward your http port ( usually 80 )
to the IP for the box which hosts your web server.




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Thanks,

I have done that but still no go. The web site works if I use the IP
address my workstation has as shown in the port forwarding ie
http://192.168.0.101 and with with local host as well. When I use my
outside IP address it is a no go.

Any ideas?

Thanks
LS
 
Then it's a question. Does the router really have a connection to the
internet. The second thing is that you should contact d-link and let
them help you configure the router.
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Maybe u need a NAT translation or something like that?
 
MBUnit said:
Then it's a question. Does the router really have a connection to the
internet. The second thing is that you should contact d-link and let them
help you configure the router.
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My setup is a wired link from the router to my workstation and a wireless
network that I only use for my IPhone. It is connected to the internet.

LS
 
I guess, but it is really more about a networking issue than asp.net

If that is the case, then I guess that when my computer crashes with hard
disk errors, I can come here for help, because my hard disk happens to have
IIS installed, which happens to serve asp.net???

I don't wish to argue, you are more active in the group, so you probably
know the group rules better than me.

(I know where to come now when my computer explodes)

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re:
!> If that is the case, then I guess that when my computer crashes with hard
!> disk errors, I can come here for help, because my hard disk happens to have
!> IIS installed, which happens to serve asp.net???

<chuckle>

What I see is a problem which prevents ASP.NET from being used.
I see that as fair game for a newsgroup partly dedicated to deploying ASP.NET apps.

re:
!> I don't wish to argue

I don't, either. Arguing only creates noise.




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re:
!> I have done that but still no go. The web site works if I use the IP
!> address my workstation has as shown in the port forwarding ie
!> http://192.168.0.101 and with localhost as well. When I use my
!> outside IP address it is a no go.

That's pretty much standard.

I can't access my external IP address, either, when I use NAT.
If I try to access my external IP address, I get my router's management interface.

Regarding access by people outside your network :
is there a DNS entry configured at your network's DNS server for your box's external IP address ?





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Sometimes theres a setting In the router management page that switches off
the management page for external traffic so port 80 goes through to your pc

That's what I had to do.

L
 
re:
!> Sometimes theres a setting In the router management page that switches off
!> the management page for external traffic so port 80 goes through to your pc

Hi, Lee.

What you did was forward your router's port 80 external traffic to your PC's external IP ?

That's another way of doing what you need to do.
It only works when you have a fixed external IP.

My router, by default, is not open to external traffic so I forwarded traffic on port 80
from the router to my PC's internal network IP, which isn't available to the oustside.

I don't have a static IP, and use a dynamic DNS updater, so that works fine for me.





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