Re: Problems setting up a web server with Win XP and IIS 5.1...???

Lanwench,

"This sort of thing does make me a bit nervous from a security standpoint.
I'd hope this isn't the same box you use as a workstation..."

No, this is a separate computer that I set aside just for this purpose.




"When you do get this up and running, go to www.dyndns.com or similar, and
set up a dynamic DNS service - and download the update client to run as a
service on this PC (or use your Linksys, which may have an update client
built in). Then you'll be able to use
http://myhostname.dynamicdnscompany.com and not worry about IP address
changes. But that's not relevant yet, of course."

I went ahead and set up an account with them as well as downloading their
automatic IP updater software. I also noticed that my router DOES have an
option to choose DynDNS in it's settings. Do you think that this might cause
a conflict...having the router as well as DynDNS's software set to update the
ip?



"But is it an exception for * or only the local subnet?"

When I "configured" the firewall, under the exceptions tab, I clicked "Add
Port" then entered the name of the exception then the port number (80). That
was all I did. I didn't mess with anything under the "Change Scope" option.
So my setting would be the default. Does it need to be set to "Any
computer...", "My network...", or "Custom..."? I suppose that if the setting
were set to custom, I would enter the local IP of my server (192.168.1.20)?




"Can you successfully telnet to your public IP address on port 80, from
outside?"

I haven't tried this, I'm not too sure what to do. I'll try looking it up
and see if I can get it to work.



"What about testing http://lanIP from another computer on your LAN, just to
make sure you can access it from something other than the box itself? That's
the interim thing I'd try...."

Yes, this works just fine. I can connect to anything I want as long as I'm
behind the router.



"Unless you'd opened up inbound ICMP, that doesn't mean much."

So the only way that you are going to get a ping response from your server
is if you "allow" it to be ping'ed? I didn't set anything like that up, so I
assume that me getting a "time out" error is normal? I'm guessing that is
set in the firewall...thus the reason why I couldn't ping my server when the
firewall was up and could when it was down?



"Ouch - don't connect without a firewall, even for a nanosecond. Put your
router back in place asap."

I did this to see if it was my firewall blocking it. It didn't solve the
problem, so I turned it right back on.



"The telnet would be a useful test....as would knowing whether you can
access the site from another machine on the same network."

I'll try to telnet to it and see what happens. If the telnet fails, what
might be causing that?


Thanks for the response,
Thomas
.

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