Hosting Web Site - Just Added Linksys Router 2

[jetar]

Not sure if this is exaclty the right forum for this topic, but here it goes.

I have been hosting a web site on my home computer, using IIS that comes with Windows XP Pro. I have a cable broadband connection and therefore a dynamic IP address. I use a web sites service to keep track of my home computers IP address and they handle the DNS entries as well, so this way everytime my IP address changes, the necessary DNS entries are updated and the URLs still point to my website.

Everything with that was working fine, until I decided i wanted to add a wireless router in order to use my laptop a little more freely. So now with the router being connected to the internet and issuing me a NATd IP address, my URLs point to the router instead of my computer.

So my question is, does anyone know how to go about getting around the router and getting the websites to point to my home computer again? Thanks for the help.

 

[JimPletcher]

You need to enable port forwarding on your router.

Check into your documentation. It's pretty simple with most routers.

 

[aznluvsmc]

You may also have to configure your PC to have a static IP rather than a dynamic one. Port forwarding requires you to configure which IP to forward to and if your computer's IP address always changes it won't work properly.



Steven S.
MCSA
A+, Network+, Server+, i-Net+

 

[jetar]

Thanks JimPletcher I will check into that tonight.

Now just to give myself an idea of what that means, will I esentually just set up the router to forward port 80 requests onto my computer? Or something completely different?

 

[jetar]

Actually Steven S., I guess I somewhat mispoke in my original post. My computer did have a dynamic IP address until I added the router. Now the router is the one being assigned the Dynamic Ip addresses and it has DHCP turned on and assigns the computers in the private network (all 2 of them) and ip address on start up. So actually I guess I still do have a dynamic IP address.

So what you are saying is that I will have to turn off DHCP in the router and static assign IP addresses?

 

[JimPletcher]

That's pretty much it.

But you'll have to have someone on the outside to test it.
Most inexpensive routers can't loop back (I found out the hard way!)

 

[JimPletcher]

Timing is everything, I posetd my last response before I saw your response to Steven S.

So, let me rephrase:

You said:
Now just to give myself an idea of what that means, will I esentually just set up the router to forward port 80 requests onto my computer? Or something completely different?

And my response was:
That's pretty much it.


Concerning your response to Steven S.:
If you turn off DHCP at the router, and assign a static IP, you'll have better control of the setup.

Sorry if I added to any confusion!!!!!

 

[jetar]

No confusion Jim, thanks for the help guys.