viewing one page from another machine

hi...

Can I make somebody else view my webpage, that i made in asp-mysql on anohter machine? I tried to give my ip address to another person to view my page. But it doesnt work. i tried as : http:\\ip-address\logindb.asp?

To run ASP on my machine i had to change my port for localhost to 8888 from the original. Before changing it to 8888 it was giving 'in use...' error. I got asp functioning when i changes my port to 8888. Now when i want to make others view my page can I do it? If yes, then i was wondering why would we need space to host a website (small scall). I can always make my machine as the host machine and no need to buy space and all?

can any one suggest me?

do i need to make any changes to my IIS setting for any 2nd person to view my login page?

thanks in advance.
janet

http://ip-address:8888/logindb.asp

note the obvious: you must be connected to the internet and you must supply the ip address given to you by your ISP.

hi ..

thanks for the reply

i did what u said ..still no help!

i am conn to net and usign hte ip provided. its not static....but while i am on net it remains constant ..i am using broadband connection.

i even made my web sharing enabled...?

any further suggestion?

and in case you still can't pick up on his advice your slashes are backwords my man. \\ is used to connect to machines, for example if i had a computer called bob on my intranet, i'd say \\bob/e$ to connect to bob's e drive, hence you need to use ipaddress/site.asp or http://ipaddress/site.asp for websites and the sort.

Html was invented long before DNS and ASP, so there had better damn well be a way to connect to your computer. or else, how the hell would your DNS be resolved to your machine without using your IP?

well if you're on port 8888 you'll need to say
http://ipaddress:8888/yoursite.asp as a correction to my previous post
and it should work as nopoints said earlier, uhh... did you disable the site in ASP? are you files in the correct site in IIS? What do you log files say? Have you forced all pages that come to this site to redirect to a default page and you haven't made a default page?

www.no-ip.com when you get your kinks worked out.

i got it workign by giving http://ip-address:8888/myweb/logindb.asp!!!


i wanted to know..if i give my ip address to others...is htere a possibility of someone hackign my machine?
thanks

hahaha, there's a high probability someone will hack your machine without giving out your IP. Equal chance of if you use DNS or IP. You can ping www.yahoo.com to get the ip of the site.

I've never tried but you probably can sniff forums.devshed.com and get user ID's that way and then bam, i have your ip without you giving it out. The internet is like walking through new york city naked, you can never trust it.

so is your box secure? uhh, no... and it never will be until you unplug it from the network, you now begin your trials of being a network admin and keeping bad people out while letting good people end, you'll never win, eventually you WILL get a virus, you WILL get a trojan, and your box WILL be compromised by a kiddie scripter. Work on DR plans and other forms of back up =P

but my ip is dynamic...if i restart my machine it will gt changed ?????

www.no-ip.com when you get your kinks worked out.