Web Server on Windows Server 2003

[leemur 0]

I am running Windows Server 2003 on a computer behind a Netgear MR814 router. I want my other computers behind the router to still be able to connect through it.

 

I am trying to run a web server that people on the internet can access with something like http://myip/. I have a reserved IP for the server and port forwarding (port 80) for it. The IIS is set up for my internal IP but I'm not sure if this is right.

 

I would appreciate any help getting this working.

Thank you!

[ajpriest 0]

Hi,

 

I suspect you may be in a similar situation to me here.

 

I setup my router to forward all http requests from outside my internal network to the IIS server (same with ftp).

 

If a person outside the network enters your IP in a browser the router then forwards the request to the web server. Your public IP would be x.x.x.x which the router forwards to your private internal IP y.y.y.y which is the IP of the IIS server.

 

Check your router forwarding settings.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Regards,

 

AJ

[theefool 0]

As far as I know, if you wish to go to http://mycomputer.com, you need to populate that entry in the www DNS server. If the WWW DNS servers have no idea what your name is, then, I, for example will not be able to browse your local computer website.

 

Most ISP's will not allow home computers to act as web servers, cause it generates a lot of traffick. Which is why they have "special rates" for businesses, which allow this. Though, I do know you can get around this, with some services like http://www.no-ip.com/

 

That is another reason why ISPs limit up speed speed slower than down speed.

[Wilhelmus 1]

Or dyndns: http://www.dyndns.org/. Free version allows to create DNS name like leemur.dyndns.org, leemur.kicks-ass.net, etc.