Broadband router & web site problem

[santanudas]

Hi all,

I’m really confused: I've a site (

http://www.littlehome.co.uk),

running behind from a firewall (actually it’s a Buffalo WBR-54G wireless router) and its working fine. But the problem is inside from my home internal network the browser cannot cop the actual site, instead it is opening the router’s web based setup page. I’ve tried a lot of things to do but no joy. Can any body send me any solution to fix that or the reason behind that behavior?

Thank you in advance!!!

Santanu

 

[tomvdduin]

try deleting the web based setup pages or put them on another port

 

[bcastner]

On your LAN or intranet, use the machine's LAN IP and not the WAN or internet one, which is what happens when you use your DNS name.

e.g. http:\\192.168.1.102:80

 

[santanudas]

I don't think that I can delete that web based setup page (and that's the only way to setup/configure or make some changes I know so far for that particular router). Is it possible to put different sites on different ports?

Thanks,

 

[bcastner]

Leave the router's setup alone. The problem is that the LAN-side address must be used on the Intranet clients and not the WAN IP address form.

 

[santanudas]

Dear bcastner,

Many thanks for replying.

Here the situation is: Using web server’s intranet IP address (with or without: 80) returns the actual page from any machine/OS from the internal network. But using public IP i.e. WAN side IP (with or without: 80) or the URL returns “HTTP 400 - Page cannot be found” on IE and “Bad host request” on NS. Isn’t interesting?

So...any suggestions/tips??

Santanu

 

[bcastner]

This is perfectly normal behavior. On higher end routers you could configure a reverse forward, but on SOHO class routers the feature is simply not available.

You can ease this a bit by making an entry in each client's host file. This is found in XP machines in the directory c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc.

Use notepad to edit HOSTS (being careful it does add a .txt extension to the file. The file must not have extensions)

After the entry:
[tt]
127.0.0.1 localhost
[/tt]
add
[tt]
192.168.1.103

http://www.littlehome.co.uk

[/tt]

 

[santanudas]

hi bcastner,

Thank you very much. I just forgot that trick. But I really grateful to you for giving me that location of ‘hosts’ file in Windows as I’m not really very familiar with windows otherwise I had to search for the rest of the life.

Thank you once again.

Santanu

 

[bcastner]

You are most welcome.