Server only works on local machine

dxstar

I know you've probably seen this question millions of times. I can't get my website to show up on any computer but my local network. I changed the port to 81 (because 80 was blocked) and I type http://myiphere:81/ and it does not work. I've read all of the things on how to fix it, and all the posts and I still can't get it to work. My Netgear router is configured to allow traffic on the port of my ip address and my firewall is also. I can't seem to get my website to be shown to the public. Please help!!
Thanks,
TOm

Anonymoose

If you type http://127.0.0.1:81 does it work ?
If you type http://yourinternetip:81 it won't work because you cannot generally send traffic to yourself via your router. It has to go out properly onto the net then return. If you want to check it using your IP, you'll have to use a proxy. Try www.proxyweb.net, remember to put your port number into the bar too.
What OS are you running ?
What personal firewall ?
Are you *sure* you've configured the router correctly to forward traffic to the right port on your machine ?

dxstar

First off, thank you for the reply.
It does indeed work if you type http://127.0.0.1:81
Since then, I've changed ports around to see if that was the problem. Right now my server is running on port 522.
However, it is not accessable to other people outside my network at home.
I have tried typing in http://myipaddress:522/ and it hasn't worked, even on the proxy server. I've had other people try as well.
I signed up for Dynamic DNS (http://dyndns.org) and made a webhop (a URL forwarding service) for it also. I signed up for the dns for my ip address (68.60.**.***) and used http://68.60.**.***:522/ as the address for the service to forward it to. My IP address has not changed in quite some time, although it is dynamic. I've checked every day to see if it has changed, and it has not.
I am running Windows XP and I am using Black Ice Defender as my firewall. I did configure it in there to allow traffic on port 522 with my actual ip address.
I also set up port forwarding for my router.
I have it forwarding to port 522 with my ip address of 68.60.**.***
Would I have to forward to port 522 using my local network ip address instead?
Thank you for the reply. My server works on my local side, just not on the outside world.
Thanks again,
Tom

Anonymoose

Yes, you need to set the router to forward traffic on port 522 to your LAN IP. If everything else is set up as you say, that should fix it 🙂

dxstar

That did the trick. Thank you for the support! I knew it was something little like that. Well I guess I know how to setup a server correctly now.
Thanks again,
Tom 😃

sonysworld

hi ... i am having a diap up connection and a single p.c at home. I use No-ip .com dynamic DNS update client.
I am able to connect to the webpage when i try to view it on my own browser. But noone can view my site over the internet.
Can someone please help me on this ??.
Thanks in advance.

senshi

Use Dyndns service as the no-ip will only pickup your proxy address set by your ISP.
It is becoming common to find ISPs using proxy addressing to hide your true IP address and no-ip is not a very good service in a number of respects, it is slow to update and I have found that on a lot of occasions the service can take longer than 10 mins to update and as for me, it always picks up the proxy address set by my ISP no matter what I do, so I use the DynDNS service as this is much better, updates are almost instant and it will correctly identify your true IP address.

sonysworld

Thanks Senshi,
But i was wondering... does DYNDNS provide a free service like No-IP ??

Anonymoose

http://www.dyndns.org/
"Best of all, Dynamic DNS and Static DNS are free for up to 5 hostnames."
Front page, first column. 8O

Hunted

Can you host a webserver with a router IP?
I gave people my IP and they said they could not connect

CapFusion

Hunted wrote
Can you host a webserver with a router IP?
I gave people my IP and they said they could not connect

You can check your current IP from this [Courtesy of Aprelium] http://www.aprelium.com/ip/
Can you check your IP again and see if it remain the same as the IP you given prior? Also, what setup do you have in your LAN network? What router do you have and did you forward the PORT (80 default from Abyss) to your LAN IP where your Abyss is sitting on?
Normally you can host your webserver from your box, yes.
Please check some tutorial setction
http://www.aprelium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1662

Hunted

Well, as they said on that tutorial, the 192.186.0.1 or whatever, none of those URL's work!
How can I find out that IP so I can config my router?

aprelium

Hunted,
LAN IPs usually look like 192.168.0.* where * is a number between 1 and 255. You can discover your computer's LAN IP by executing the command ipconfig or winipcfg (depends on the Windows version you have).

Hunted

I've tried that and it works, but before I can read a word that it says, it will automaticaly close it. Does it log somewhere?

CapFusion

Hunted wrote
I've tried that and it works, but before I can read a word that it says, it will automaticaly close it. Does it log somewhere?

Are talking about IPCONFIG that close after the result?
Open up your Windows DOS and try again. Or just goto start > Run and type in CMD. A Windows DOS will open up.
Type in:
ipconfig /all
Look for the line indicate "IP Address". This will be your LAN IP that your box is currently using.
For the following:
ipconfig - WinNT/XP/2000
Or
winipcfg - Win95/98/SE/ME
And OR simply use this from Aprelium > http://www.aprelium.com/ip/

Hunted

Ok, all of those mainly point to 192.168.0.1 but that does not work
and where it says "IP Address" it says 192.168.0.1xx
When I go to http://192.168.0.1 it says Cannot Find Server...
I am confused

CapFusion

Hunted wrote
Ok, all of those mainly point to 192.168.0.1 but that does not work
and where it says "IP Address" it says 192.168.0.1xx
When I go to http://192.168.0.1 it says Cannot Find Server...
I am confused

Dude! 192.168.xxx.xxx is your LAN IP (private)[Class C]. Are you using another PC from your LAN to access the Abyss box or from the outside like across town or from another location to that IP you are referring to?
Assumed you have another PC from your LAN and trying to connect to 192.168.0.1... Is this where your Abyss is sitting? My guess that IP is a router / gateway. Then it would not connect.
1. Find what your LAN IP of where Abyss is sitting.
Use IPCONFIG /all [WinNT/XP/2K] or winipcfg /all [Win95/98/ME] and see what IP it currently using.
2. If you have a router / gateway that connect all your PC together, then enable Port forward / vertual server port of port 80 (abyss default port) to IP of Abyss.
Question:
1. Did you ISP provide you a Static or Dynamic IP?
What is your IP they assign to you?
2. What LAN IP is Abyss currently on?
3. Do you have a router / gateway before it goto your LAN PC?
Can you provide the name / model?

aven

CapFusion wrote
2. If you have a router / gateway that connect all your PC together, then enable Port forward / vertual server port of port 80 (abyss default port) to IP of Abyss.

Please, explain that a little more. My problem is similar but with a different story. First I had the abyssws installed on my Win98 machine. Then I noticed what everyone else have found out the same way. To run ASP you'll need XP. So I installed abyssws on my XP machine in the same 3-computer-switch-LAN. Actually it's now on the gateway.
It all went really well. My ASP sites were showing off on my LAN. However, the outside world only got the html-text including server side scripts and all. It took me some time to realize why. The thing was that the outside world was still connected to my Win98 host, while my 3 computers knew where to find the right server.
So, I uninstalled the Win98 server again and now all my three computers surf without any complaints to my XP server while the outside world can't see anything. I've read many of the QA:s inhere and many of them seem to come very close to my problem but none of them is clearly the same.
Please, advise.

aven

Where the heck did my reply go???
I just entered a long description on the solution to my own problem (see above). It showed up on the preview but after submitting it I can't see the result....

Karasu Kami

Its there aven