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aa350

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:eek: I have set up my web server 2003 to act as my web page. I have forwarded my domain name name server to zonedit.com which I then placed my Ip there so it can enter my router at home through port 80-81. Whithin my network I can see my web page I can also remote access my server from another computer whithin the network.
But from outside my network when I type in my www.address.com it comes back as page not found.

Can anyone help????????? Getting frustrated.

Note I also cannot access my server with remote access from outside my network it comes back saying server not found may be busy or you have no authority. What Ip address should I enter outside of my network?


Thanx!! :AA
 
Your getting confused between your public and local ip. You can log into your home website from youe ip address 192.168.xx.xx address. But when your outside and use the same one it wont work with the 192 address. You have to find your public ip and then forward you webpage requestes to that ip (which is actually your router). Your router will then forward it through port 80-81 to your local ip 192.168.xx.xx To find your public ip address go to www.whatismyip.com !BUT! Your Ip address ight be dynamic, which means it will change every 24hrs, or everytime you get a new connection...
 
Thankx I will try it out today.
And yes it is dynamic but i have aprogram running on my server that notifies zoneedit of the changing ip address which updates every 1 minute.

How do I forward my webpage requests to my local IP?
 
You don't want to forward your webpage requests to your local IP, you want it forwarded to your public IP. When you look at your website via your home network, you are viewing it through your local IP. The local IP is an IP that the machines within the network can associate each other with for faster speeds and efficiency. A public IP is used when accessing outside a private network. Here is an example...

Here at work we have over 150 machines, each has it's own local IP (ie 10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2, 10.0.0.3, etc.) because that is what the network admin set them as. Here is an example, the machine I am using right now, has a local IP of 10.0.0.121. If somebody outside the company (not on our network) wanted to remotely connect to my machine, they would have to use my public IP, 69.***.***.***
 
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