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I made a small webpage that has a few pictures for my family to see because it would take forever for them to receive them via email.

My problem is that nobody back home can see the webpage when they follow the link that I've emailed them. They get a message about the website being unavailable.

I have no problem getting to it from one of the other workstations that I have in my home, so I figure it is probably something to do with my router and the "port forwarding" feature.

I've forwarded port 80 on the router to my "web server". Is there anything else that I should be doing?

Thanks,

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[bcastner]

You need to give them your WAN IP address. Click this and tell them to use as the address the number you get back. To be thorough, you append the port number like this:
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80

http://www.lawrencegoetz.com/programs/ipinfo/

 

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I gave them the correct address.

My "web host server" is 192.168.123.4
the router LAN IP is 192.168.123.66
the router WAN IP is 68.170.blah.blah

I have port 80 forwarded to my .4 and the checkbox is selected to "enable" it.

The address that I have them was the WAN IP. I've tried having them append the port number too with the same result.

I'm trying to get there from work with the same result. I can reach the router config login with the WAN IP through port 8080 so I know the WAN IP is still valid, but if I try to us straight http (port 80) to the website host server I get nowhere.

 

[bcastner]

Are you running IIs or Apache?

It sounds as if you just created an HTML page. That is only a small part of the issue. You need to create a web server to answer queries from a Browser on port 80.

 

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Maybe if I describe my home network it will clear up some confusion. I'm working on my cert., so I've been scarfing up Ebay deals for a while to support my efforts.

My network consists of a single-server Active Directory Domain, running DHCP and Terminal Services.

I have a server-class machine (HP, SCSI backplane, dual PII, 512MB RAM) that is functioning as the Domain Controller/DHCP/DNS/TS/Web/FTP Server.

Two Win98SE, one Win2kPro and one WinXP workstation are using the DHCP service.

I've been hosting my intranet site on this server for over six months without any problem. That's why I didn't think it would be a big deal to "open a hole in the firewall" and let my folks see a few snapshots of the kids.

I created the page with FrontPage 2000 and published it to a virtual directory created in IIS for the purpose. The same virtual directory was configured for web and FTP file transfer. All permissions were set to allow IUSR (anonymous) access.

Everything works from any node on my network. The URL and FTP function exactly like they should. I even tested it with the machines not logged into the domain so I don't think it's an authentication issue.

That's why I think it is probably something about the port forwarding or my router setup somehow. I have to admit, I'm weak in that area. I've even tried placing the server into the DMZ, but I still get nothing.

Thanks for anything you can think of

 

[smah]

Try setting your server to listen on a different port, like 8080 (and modify your router port forwarding accordingly). Your isp may be blocking 80.

 

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I'll check that this evening when I get home and post the results.

Thanks.

 

[AdmanOK]

Many cable providers will block port 80 on their networks to stop you from setting up webservers.

 

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Sorry it took so long to get back to the post. Port 80 was definitely blocked by the ISP.

I forwarded an obscure port on the router to port 80 on my webserver and emailed the hyperlink

http://ipaddress:obscureport

to the family.

It took all of one minute to get an email back from them confirming success.

Thanks to all! I really appreciate it.

 

[smah]

Thanks for letting us know.