Cannot Hit Web Server from outside (Windows Server 2003) 1

[pain3]

Hopefully this is an easy fix:

I have a Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6 running. We have a static IP Address for the Web Site that we are hosting, but cannot access it from the outside. I have talked to my ISP and the settings on their end are correct, same as the Domain registrar. The problem has to be with my server not responding with the correct website information.

I can ping the

http://www name

from outside and it shows the correct IP address, but get no repsonse. I am using the headers in IIS management to point to the site on the server an assume I have that set up correctly. I tried "canyouseeme.org" and port 80 is open.

I have read some of the other threads in this forum and seem to have all of the settings correct, but just cannot get the site up and running.

 

[yanks2112]

The problem has to be with my server not responding with the correct website information" - Is anything being displyaed (ie the default web site opening the "Under Construction" page).

If so, then it sounds like the host header (canyouseeme.org) are not being resolved properly in DNS. If this is the case try adding canyouseeme.org to the hosts file using the internal IP address. I know this is an out dated method, but it can help you quickly determine if DNS is the issue (I've seen this happen a lot on servers that have multiple host headers and cannot reliably access a DNS server)

 

[pain3]

Thanks for the help. After all of the headache I went through with my internal server, it ended up being the wrong static IP address from our ISP. The host headers seem to be working fine now.