Public unable to view my web

M

Martin

I have just created a homepage and published it locally.
I have my own domain with forwarding to my pc. I type
www.mjburgess.co.uk and see the web site from any pc on my
network. My friends can not access, it errors saying that
it is unavailable. Port 80 is open.
 
S

Steve Easton

1. Do you have a static IP address??
If not, you need to update your domain forwarder
every time you reconnect your machine.

2. What did you publish it locally too/
what are you using as a server??
 
G

Guest

yes I do have a static IP 192.168.0.4
I have my domain with LCN which has a forward in place to
this ip address. My PC is a P4 2GIG running Win2k and also
servs as the proxy for the rest of the network.
 
R

Ronx

192.168.0.4 is an internal network address, that will not work on the
internet.
You will have to set up LCN to forward to the internet IP address assigned
by your ISP, which must be static.
Your local network router/proxy server will be set up to forward web
requests to 194.168.0.4
 
S

Steve Easton

Thanks for pitching in with the answer Ron,
I just got around to checking back.

;-)
 
M

Martin

Still no joy, now changed my scope to 172.15.0.1 -
172.15.0.50, I connect with out a problem from any pc on
my network but friends still can't access it. Now I am
lost but will not give up.
Tried forwarding to both 172.15.0.2 the home NIC and the
broadband NIC, even tried disabling the firewall.
Can't ping 172.15.0.2.mjburgess.co.uk. Could it be my ISP
blocking it?
 
S

Steve Easton

Martin, regardless of what IP you assign your
computer, visitors can only access your "net"
via the IP that is assigned to your connection by your ISP.
Example, I use a NAT router to connect 4 machines to our
ISP. The machines have addresses in the 192.168.0.0 range,
but you can't reach or "see" them or ping them because the
router obtains an IP address that is the internet connection.
Additionally, the router "blocks" access to the computers
from the "internet"

The machine that is "serving" your web needs direct access to
the "www" to be "seen" from the "www" and be accessible via the "www"

hth
 
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