IIS Troubles @ Home

[Rookie]

I am running IIS 5.1 on my win xp pro machine and can not get access seem to access my website (main directory c:/intpub/wwwroot/) from a remote location. I have no issues with it running locally but when I try to access the site with another computer on my home network or remotely (using port forwarding on my router) I get a "page cannot be displayed error". I have made sure that my default documents are correct, and everything else looks in order. I created a new account for anonymous IUSR just to test and still had no luck.

If any has a free moment that they could give me some troubleshooting steps that would be great (I am just all out of ideas).

Thanks,
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[bruce]

several things could be the cause

1) you have IP restriction

2) you have disabled basic authentication

What is the exact error code?

Bruce

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[Rookie]

Thank you for responding Bruce.

Here is the IE page that is displayed after the browsers seems to time out:

http://www.lavendersorbet.com/screenshot.jpg

The IP address pointing to my router is correct because I can use other services using it that point to the same computer. I think the authentication is the issue, is there a way to test that?

[mjp]

Roadrunner (the domain in your image resolves to them) most likely blocks port 80, most ISPs do. If you try to access it on an alternate http port (add :8080 to the end of your URL) it connects but prompts for a password.


In general it's not really a good idea to open up nonstandard ports on a machine on your home network toany outsideconnectionsunless you're very confident that you have the proper security in place. The ports on big ISPs like Roadrunner are scanned constantly byknuckleheads who will waste no time exploiting open portsthey find in very unpleasant ways.







mjp
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Post Edited (mjp) : 7/6/2006 8:35:09 PM GMT

[Rookie]

Thanks, for the heads up. 8080 I have open so that I can modify my router today while I'm at work. I've talked with the techs at Roadrunner and they said there are no restrictions on that port.

[bruce]

This error is definitely caused by a network related issue. I don't think you are going to solve the problem by poking around IIS, focus on your firewall or router.

Bruce

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[Rookie]

So I have tried almost everything http://community.discountasp.net/emoticons/confused.gif, except reimaging my machine.

The problem definately is with IIS. I tried a different router to make sure it wasn't a defect with the one I was using and still had the same issue. So I tried stopping IIS and running a generic standalone webserver application and it worked fine. As soon as I turned it off and started IIS again I continued to get the "Page cannot be found error". I tried resetting the default settings on IIS and I am still having the same issue.

I have no problem on my machine using http://localhost/ but I can't get a response from another machine on my network or remotely using my http://MyIPAddress

[bruce]

can you even ping the address on the machine that can't access the site?


Bruce

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[Rookie]

I could ping the address on the network, I can remote desktop to the computer I just couldn't get a response from IIS.

I almost threw the computer out the window this weekend, so I decided to install server 2003 on the machine. Long story short... this resolved the issue.

I guess it will always be mystery as to what happened to it.

Thanks for the help anyways!
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[bruce]

Oh well.. sorry couldn't be of more help.

Bruce

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