Outside Access to website

[kophjager]

Hello All,
I have a question that I have been doing a lot of searching on. I recently installed IIS on my XP machine and am accessing an Oracle database I made. I am on a cable modem behind a linksys router. There are 5 computers on the network and I set up my computer to receive port forwarding from the linksys router. Everything works fine when I am at my computer or the other four computers. When I go away from home, I cannot access the website via IE. I ping the site(not at home) and the request times out immediately. I also do a tracert(not at home again) and it does 12 hops and gets to my ISP and then times out. When I am at home I ping and get an immediate response. I do a tracert and it does one hop out to my isp and back sucessfully. Any ideas? I need help Thanks again.

 

[epohl]

Are you sure port 80 is open in the firewall configuration of the linksys router?

 

[kophjager]

Yes, I turned port forwarding on for port 80 in the router configuration, and set it to point to my machine.

 

[epohl]

I wonder if maybe your ISP possibly has port 80 blocked, does your ISP allow people to run web servers (most do not). Easiest way to test and rule out that your linksys router may be the problem is actually plug the web server directly into the cable modem (make sure it gets assigned and external ip) and see if someone external is able to hit it.

 

[kophjager]

Thanks ephol, I'll try that although I did call my ISP and ask to see if they do block port 80. The guy I spoke with said "no they do not" without hesitation so who knows, but I'll try. Also I tried redirecting the domain name service I have to port 8080 to try and get around the blocked port just in case. I also changed the port in the IIS server under website properties to reflect port 8080, but I get an log in box even when I try to connect to it. I thought using another port would solve the problem, I mean I do have port 8080 forwarded in the linksys router to my computer as well. Any thoughts on the workaround? Thanks in advance.

 

[JWFdev]

I think this has something to do with your routing tables for the machine you are running IIS.

Try setting it's gateway to itself.

Or... install/setup routing on this machine and make sure the routing tables allow the linksys router's IP to find the 127.0.0.1 of the IIS machine.

I forgot... but I'm pretting sure the ping won't use port 80 by default. The command pathping incorporates the ping and tracert commands together and might be helpful too. Sincerely,
John Ford

 

[kophjager]

Well I think I have it figured out. I have port 8000 forwrded to my machine and am able to get outside users to access the site on my machine. I guess the guy from my ISP who said port 80 was not blocked must have lied. Thanks all for your help.