Server only works on local machine

dxstar · 2003-11-19T01:24:13+00:00

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

Khell

Ok, I seem to be having much the same problem as many here, I set up my server, I have my router set to forward the port to my computer but it still won't work. I had it working before but then I installed a new harddrive, re-installed the server and no one can accesss it any longer. Any ideas?

matt_g

Ok... I have abyss ws installed on Win Xp Professional ... I'm running Norton Personal Firewall 2003 and I have it configured to allow incoming traffic on port 80... I used ipconfig/all to determine what the IP configuration...
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : user-2eopvoqf52
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 66.103.42.1**
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 66.103.42.*
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 24.139.0.1**
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 216.104.96.1*
216.104.96.1*
that was the result... what do I need to change... and how do I do it..
I can access my site from the localhost (http://127.0.0.1/).. But other people in the world cannot veiw the site..
I have a cable internet connection ...
Please help

CapFusion

You will need to port forward or virtual server to your IP from your "Gateway" or "Router".
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 66.103.42.1**

CapFusion

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.

I am not sure what your actual problem. But I would check if your new XP is not enable it Firewall feature. You can check in "Network..." > LAN properties > Advanced [tab] and uncheck "Internet Connection Firewall".
When you use your XP as a Gateway, it will pass-thu and out but not incoming request that does not originally request from inside.

matt_g

CapFusion wrote
You will need to port forward or virtual server to your IP from your "Gateway" or "Router".
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 66.103.42.1**

How? im new at this :? :cry:

CapFusion

How? im new at this

Access your router / gateway, there should be port forwarding or virtural server to point certain port you want to your specific LAN IP on your local network.

mighty b

iv been having the same problem for months. Everything was set up correctly. I was about to give up. I dont know what was the peroblem but basically somhow i got my ip address wrong. When i go to www.whatismyip.com it shows me the wrong ip. Same thing with ipconfig on windows xp. I tryed it a number of times and yesterday it showed me a slightly different ip (by using ipconfig), i tryed it and now everything works fine.
hope that helps to explain things
*edited*
another thing...
i just had to fix a similar problem on my mates computer.... p2p programs should be turned off... they usually connect through port 80

goku

about the post forwarding, there are a lot of information they wants like "outbound" and "inbound" ports and other stuff, i'm not sure how to do that?
btw, i got that same problem where other people can't view the pages on my server
It looks like this, what do I do?

CapFusion

Sorry for late reply. I had other thing to take care of first before Abyss.

about the post forwarding, there are a lot of information they wants like "outbound" and "inbound" ports and other stuff, i'm not sure how to do that?

Most of this problem regarding port forwarding or virtual server is not setting correctly from the Router / Gateway.
Simply find your LAN IP of where your Abyss is on and assign that LAN IP to your Router for Port Forwarding or Virtual Server.
A typical LAN IP will look something that start with 192.168.1.1 So if you Abyss is sitting on 192.168.1.101 then assign 101 to the Port Forwarding. Next is to set the Port where Abyss is listening to. The default is 80. If you have change to something else, then use that port accordingly.

btw, i got that same problem where other people can't view the pages on my server
It looks like this, what do I do?

I am not sure what you mean by can view the page. Please be more specific or describe of what you doing.
If you are referring to view your Abyss page from LAN [Locally] by another PC in the same LAN network. You simply point to that LAN IP. But if you are trying to view it from a remote like from across the street from another LAN. Then you simply enter the public IP which your ISP provide to you.
You can use this link http://www.aprelium.com/ip/ courtesy of Aprelium. This will try to detect what Public IP you currently on. If it is a static IP which it does not change in due time. But if it change to something else, you may have dynamic IP. You will need to update your current IP by using a DNS server like No-IP.com or similar service to update your network.
If you do not know what Port Forwarding or Virtual Server or similar, please check the tutorial section to get some general idea. But since you did not indicate what model or even brand, it kind hard to determine to give exact information.

SpeersSV

I don't claim to be an expert, but with a lil help from my friends, here is a very simple method I used for fixing this problem.
go to your C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc folder. Backup your "hosts" file first and foremost. Open the original "hosts" file in notepad or whatever text editing program you want.
you will see a bunch of lines like "internalIP websiteURL". You will need your internal(Lan) IP and your external(internet) IP for the next step. Just simple type in the internal IP at the bottom of the page, hit TAB, then put in the URL/external IP you are wanting to foward from. Save the file. Close all IE windows, and then give it a shot.
For example...if my internal IP is 10.90.1.234, and the external URL I am fowarding to is supersweet.xdisk.co.uk on port 8000, then...my lnew line in the host file would look like this
10.90.1.234 supersweet.xdisk.co.uk
I HAD to use TAB for whatever reasons. A simple space(like all the previous lines) would not work. Also be sure not to add the port # on either address.
This is just how I got it to work..and I can't promise it will work for anyone else....like I said...I'm not an expert...I'm just a guy who finally fixed a problem that has been bugging him for a good month or two now..and I noticed alot of other peeps with the same problem.

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