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Old July 9th, 2004, 11:23 AM
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Server/Router Problem - Please Help!
Hi,

I’ll cut to my problem….


We have a network in the office; it is small with about 4 computers on.
We have ADSL coming in through a router which splits it through the hub to the computers.
We have bought a new server where we wish to host our website. The server is connected to the network and to the router separately using a USB cable (the rest is by Ethernet).
The server is running XP Pro and I have installed IIS from the XP disk, I have attempted to set up the various IIS components by following various internet guides.
The problem is that although we have a fixed IP address from our ISP that only brings you to the router and I no not know how to set the router up to then direct traffic to the server.
Also, I thought that when you type ‘http://localhost/’ in IE with IIS installed and set up, you are taken to the site hosted but this does also not happen!

Please help!!

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You need to go to the port forwarding settings in your router and forward port 80 to the web server computer.
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1. I can get to the settings and 'Port Forwarding' but how do I set which comuter it forwards to?

2. What about the 'http://localhost' problem??

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Typically, you would set the server to a fixed IP address, rather than an automatically assigned one, in the same range as the autos; perhaps 192.168.0.10 or similar. Then you would forward to that address, which won't change. Localhost refers to the machine on which you invoke it, not to a 'server' on the network.
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When I type 'localhost' on the machine it does not work.
How do you set up the server with a fixed ip?

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The problem is that although we have a fixed IP address from our ISP that only brings you to the router and I no not know how to set the router up to then direct traffic to the server.

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How do you set up the server with a fixed ip?


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When I type 'localhost' on the machine it does not work.

By "the machine" do you mean the actual server itself? Or another computer on the network. localhost means 127.0.0.1, which means the computer you're sitting at right now, and every other computer in the world... so to check the localhost thing you have to be at the actual server... But if you know the network ip (usually starts with 192.168.0.xxx or 10.0.0.xxx), type that because the router shouldn't care about routing it.

About the setting IIS up properly for the computer's fixed IP, post it in the IIS forum.
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