IIS 6 Only repsonding to local connections

[jgillin]

Hi All,
I have a test server setup and I'm trying to figure out how to make it accessible to the internet (by IP address). I've tested locally using both

http://localhost/

, and by IP address (which I get from ipconfig). I can type in the IP address on the server itself and the site comes up, but if I go to another server and try to access it over the internet, it doesn't come up.
I have 2 firewalls and I made sure that port 80 was open.
Then, I tried simply shutting down both firewalls and attempting access via another computer, but with no luck.
Any ideas why?
Thanks for any thoughts.

 

[canadiense]

What's the first number of your IP address you're trying to get to? Can you ping the same IP from the other box? If you can ping it, then do a ping -a x.x.x.x This will give you the DNS name. Use your browser on box number 2 and type

http://dnsname/

Anything?

What O/S?

 

[jgillin]

Thanks for the reply.
I'm running Windows 2003 and thus IIS6. That's the main issue I think (because it's so locked down by default). I don't have a public domain setup for this test server and only need to have people access it by IP address. After obtaining my IP address by using ipconfig, I can type that in on the server and the site will come up. But, even after disabling my firewalls, I still can't access it from another computer. I think the problem is that something needs to be enabled within this iis6 configuration, but I haven't figured out what that is yet.
Any ideas?

 

[RobAus]

Can you let me know if you worked it out. I have the same problem

 

[jgillin]

Actually I didn't, and I haven't retried yet, but I did some thinking about it and I think it's a matter of giving the "Internet Guest Account" read and execute permissions.

 

[jasonboyes]

Do you run a hardware firewall?

IF it is a hardware firewall did you forward all port 80 traffic to the machine?

on another machine in the office did you try

http://ip_of_server

?



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[skotman]

It's a 2K3 issue. I had the same problem. I couldn't access any of the services remotely. If I get some time today I'll read up on 2k3 at microsoft's site and report back

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[rackunit]

Hi Guys,

seems to be a bit of a hair puller .....
I have the same thing happening ....wierd thing is ftp works fine .....my server is multihomed ,site is bound to all available ip's .the problem occurs when i use nat or ics and i dont have any firewall running.

please anyone ...?????

regards
rackunit

 

[rackunit]

Hi guys,

Turns out my problem is simply that my isp blocks incoming port 80 traffic (the bastards)

regards
rackunit

 

[jgillin]

That indeed turns out to be my problem as well. I switched to a different port and it worked fine. It's kinof nice for testing purposes to know this since you can create numerous websites on different ports and have the client login to the port that their website is being developed on (since this is just a development server).
Thanks,
Jeff