Web Server Problem

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Web Server Problem

I have a web page that works on whatever computer is connected to my network. But if another computer tries to go to the site it doesn't work. I have enables all the sharing that there needs to be. I enabled file, windows, and site sharing, all without a firewall and it still doesn't work. Do I have to re-install whatever server came installed on my computer?

Tiger, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Nov 11, 2008 3:05 PM

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BDAqua

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Nov 11, 2008 3:13 PM in response to kmccmk9

Hi,

But if another computer tries to go to the site it doesn't work.

Do you ean one from the Internet?

For that to work you need to do port forwarding from the Router to the Computer that hosts the Web Pages.

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kmccmk9 Author

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Nov 11, 2008 3:23 PM in response to BDAqua

how? ya like a friend at his house tries to go to the link but the page doesn't show up for him. I can add another port forward but wut "service" is it?

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kmccmk9 Author

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Nov 11, 2008 3:27 PM in response to kmccmk9

is it DNS
or
World Wide Web (HTTP)

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BDAqua

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Nov 11, 2008 3:54 PM in response to kmccmk9

It's normally Port 80 for http/https.

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Answer 5

Nov 11, 2008 6:33 PM in response to kmccmk9

You have to configure a port forwarding on your router from port 80, tcp, to your local LAN address at whatever machine is hosting the website.

Example: If the webhost machine is 192.168.1.10, you'll set your router to forward port 80 tcp (service http) to 192.168.1.10.

Also, you might consider to go into system pref., network, select the interface you are connected to your router, and set "manually". Then specify that machines local IP Address (the same it already acquired from the DHCP server).

This will prevent that your machine acquire another network address from the router's DHCP server, by "forcing" the same.

Also, your friend must type your public IP Address (given by your ISP) in his browser in order to reach your website.

-rs

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kmccmk9 Author

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Nov 11, 2008 6:38 PM in response to kmccmk9

I don't have that option to forward a specific port. Only port services...unless you know wut service corresponds with port 80

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Answer 7

Nov 11, 2008 6:40 PM in response to kmccmk9

the service is http

what is your router?

-rs

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kmccmk9 Author

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Nov 11, 2008 6:46 PM in response to maverickws

I only have a modem and Westell

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Answer 9

Nov 11, 2008 6:48 PM in response to kmccmk9

Ok, so what's the IP Address you gave your friend so he could access your website?

If you don't want to post it here and don't mind send me a pm, so I may help you (or try to).

-rs

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kmccmk9 Author

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Nov 11, 2008 6:48 PM in response to kmccmk9

I don't have http, I have World Wide Web (HTTP)

assuming thats it

should the service be activated host or dynamic?

Host Allows unsolicited inbound traffic to a particular PC on the LAN.
Dynamic Enables inbound traffic based on specific outbound traffic.

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kmccmk9 Author

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Nov 11, 2008 7:01 PM in response to maverickws

ok u can use this. its shortened

kylesflashgames.tk

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Answer 12

Nov 11, 2008 6:55 PM in response to kmccmk9

Ok, since I don't know the equipment (modem or router) your using I'll assume "host". Yes it should be the World Wide Web (HTTP) option.
If you want give me the model so I check it up and try to find details about it's config.

To find out your public IP, the one that will matter for this case, go to http://whatismyip.com/

-rs

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kmccmk9 Author

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Nov 11, 2008 7:04 PM in response to maverickws

ok so for the
"manually enter a LAN IP:" I would put the ip from that site?

but my computer, that is hosting, was automatically found...should I use that instead?

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for no apparent reason but to confuse everyone...jk

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Answer 14

Nov 11, 2008 7:05 PM in response to kmccmk9

kmccmk9 wrote:
ok so for the
"manually enter a LAN IP:" I would put the ip from that site?

No, forget that. There's no problem with the http access to your machine.

Here's the problem:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=http://192.168.1.46/~kyle/kylesflashgames/index.htm">
</head>

<body>
</body>
</html>

whatever's the page you got there, replace the 192.168.1.46 to http://kylesflashgames.tk/

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kmccmk9 Author

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Nov 11, 2008 7:10 PM in response to maverickws

I can't. I'm using kylesflashgames.tk as a link shortener, thats all it is. I actually can't even host with that. But we tried putting the whole address to go directly to the site no refreshing or anything

...actually that whole refresh code, is in the code for the page that the url points to. Let me map it

kylesflashgames.tk-------some url on some server that has that refresh code on it------which brings you to actual site

I can't use the direct link with the dot.tk service because it doesn't recognize it as a valid url so I had to create the page to auto refresh. Hopefully that makes sense

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