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 Posted: 03 September 2005 at 6:27am |
Going back to hosting a site on my own PC, I was able to view my site after typing its domain name in my browser's address bar >>> but when I asked my friends to view my website that is being hosted on my pc but they could not view it. What could be the problem? The DNS was updated more than 24 hours ago so I dont think it's a dn problem.
Per hosting more than one site, I will try what you stated in the second method and see. Thanks for your time.
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Posted: 03 September 2005 at 11:16am |
You wouldn't happen to be using filesharing would you?
dns propagation can take longer than 24 hours - and for some tld's, it
can still take 3-4 days. Try having your friends hit the site by ip
address - http://xxx.yyy.zzz.000/
If they can't, it's a firewall or network settings issue on your end.
www.broadbandreports.com has excellent tutorials on networking and server set-up
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Posted: 03 September 2005 at 1:13pm |
 Info_Tech wrote:
Going back to hosting a site on my own PC, I was able to view my site after typing its domain name in my browser's address bar >>> but when I asked my friends to view my website that is being hosted on my pc but they could not view it. What could be the problem? The DNS was updated more than 24 hours ago so I dont think it's a dn problem.
Per hosting more than one site, I will try what you stated in the second method and see. Thanks for your time. |
As dypers said it can take a few days. I am assuming that you put the external ip in the dns setup and not the internal one. ^^ I have done this before and got very confused!
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Posted: 03 September 2005 at 1:59pm |
dpyers wrote:
You wouldn't happen to be using filesharing would you? |
Well yes I have some music and other files for others to download off my website if that's what you mean by filesharing.
dpyers wrote:
Try having your friends hit the site by ip address - http://xxx.yyy.zzz.000/
If they can't, it's a firewall or network settings issue on your end.
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I did, I asked them to view it with the IP address but they could not. And yes, I have windows firewall on... but I don't want to turn it off... you know it's somehow risky not to have a firewall...however, there is an option in the firewall called "exceptions" where you can specify what applications to allow.
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Posted: 03 September 2005 at 2:04pm |
huwnet wrote:
I am assuming that you put the external ip in the dns setup and not the internal one.
^^ I have done this before and got very confused!
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external and internal, where are the two located? in the domain's setting or in my connection properties? Here is what I have done in the domain's settings:
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Posted: 03 September 2005 at 4:27pm |
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Ok everything look ok except the firewall.
Edit the settings and make sure IIS is allowed if not add it!
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Posted: 03 September 2005 at 10:59pm |
huwnet wrote:
Edit the settings and make sure IIS is allowed if not add it! |
I tried to add it but i cannot locate it from the browse directory! How do i add it?
Update: I added it but nothing has changed -no one is able to view it! Here are the IIS components i added to the exceptions of the firewall:
Edited by Info_Tech - 04 September 2005 at 1:09am
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Posted: 04 September 2005 at 3:24am |
I am running out of ideas now  1)Do you have an external firewall? 2)Check the access settings in the web site properties. 3)What ISP do you use?
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