how do you access own website over internet?

Hello,
I'm trying to view my home PC from another PC outside the local
network but Explorer times out with failure to connect.
I set the router firewall to forward to the PC with Internet
Information Server with access through port 80; I switched off
Windows
Firewall to stop it preventing connections; I allowed anonymous
connections through IIS properties.

Is there something I'm missing? By using the reported IP address
from whatismyip, I have accessed the web page I set up on the IIS PC
from another PC on the local network- are there further authorisation
issues preventing an outside machine from connecting with the web
page?


Any advice would be greatly appreciated


Regards
John

Re: how do you access own website over internet?

a) You'd need to use the IP address of the external interface of your router

b) You need to ensure that your ISP isn't preventing you from accessing
services on port 80. Some ISPs prohibit customers running servers as part of
their AUP

Cheers
Ken

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"jac" wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I'm trying to view my home PC from another PC outside the local
> network but Explorer times out with failure to connect.
> I set the router firewall to forward to the PC with Internet
> Information Server with access through port 80; I switched off
> Windows
> Firewall to stop it preventing connections; I allowed anonymous
> connections through IIS properties.
>
> Is there something I'm missing? By using the reported IP address
> from whatismyip, I have accessed the web page I set up on the IIS PC
> from another PC on the local network- are there further authorisation
> issues preventing an outside machine from connecting with the web
> page?
>
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated
>
>
> Regards
> John
>
>

Re: how do you access own website over internet?

Hi,

Most common reason why it does not work is that your ISP blocks port 80.

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Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert
http://www.gafvert.info/iis/ - IIS Related Info


"jac" skrev i meddelandet
news:53f557bf-6522-4945-bb14-23ed8bdec18b@e6g2000prf.googleg roups.com...
> Hello,
> I'm trying to view my home PC from another PC outside the local
> network but Explorer times out with failure to connect.
> I set the router firewall to forward to the PC with Internet
> Information Server with access through port 80; I switched off
> Windows
> Firewall to stop it preventing connections; I allowed anonymous
> connections through IIS properties.
>
> Is there something I'm missing? By using the reported IP address
> from whatismyip, I have accessed the web page I set up on the IIS PC
> from another PC on the local network- are there further authorisation
> issues preventing an outside machine from connecting with the web
> page?
>
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated
>
>
> Regards
> John
>
>

Re: how do you access own website over internet?

On 28 nov, 19:09, jac wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to view my home PC from another PC outside the local
> network but Explorer times out with failure to connect.
> I set the router firewall to forward to the PC with Internet
> Information Server with access through port 80; I switched off
> Windows
> Firewall to stop it preventing connections; I allowed anonymous
> connections through IIS properties.
>
> Is there something I'm missing? By using the reported IP address
> from whatismyip, I have accessed the web page I set up on the IIS PC
> from another PC on the local network- are there further authorisation
> issues preventing an outside machine from connecting with the web
> page?
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated
>
> Regards
> John

Have you ckecked permissions to the folder containing your pages?
IUSR_Machine must be able to READ the files at the very least in order
to browse the site. You could also check your external and
internalfirewalls to see if port 80 is open or not. Google for
"ShieldsUp" to find a safe site to perforrm your port scanning. If the
result shows that the port is open, then check access permissions as
suggested above. Good luck.