I have a web application I have developed on a server on my home computer. Is it possible to access that web page from another computer on my home network?
My naive approach was just enter my ip address followed by the port number :8888 which the server is listening on...
Any help would be great thank you.
I don't know if it will help but you can use an ssh connection to your computer. But you need to do it from a shell (from terminal on a mac, use putty on a PC)
In the end it was easier to set up remote access to the server by setting up port-forwarding on my router and using no-ip for DNS management. They have a decent walkthrough to get it all up and running. So i simply have to type in my-address.no-ip.org to access my site from any remote device.
Otherwise the links to questions on superuser that Sampo posted are worth a try.
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Good day to all,
I am trying to create my website locally, and perhaps access the website through my phone from the localhost. Forgive me I am just a beginner.
So I used ipconfig -all to find my IPV4 address and it was e.g
192.168.1.102
And on the ASP.net webapplication I ran, the address was:
https://localhost:44337
Hence, I was trying to access this Web Application of mine created on my PC, to be accessed on my phone. On my phone, I entered the address:
192.168.1.102:44337
I went into my firewall setting to add a new rule for inbound connection to allow all ports to be connected as well. But it still don't work. Both my PC and phone is connected to the same wifi.
Does anyone know the fix? Thank you in advance.
You might have to configure an IIS server. This tool comes default in Windows (professional?), and there's lots of good resources on how to do this, all of which do a better job of explaining the process than I could do.
Essentially, you will need to:
Publish your site (Done through visual studio or cli)
Enable and configure your IIS
Create a new website in the IIS manager and point it towards the output of your web app publish
After opening the neccessary firewall ports, check to see in which IP address your web application is running. I am assuming you are using some sort of HTTP webserver software like IIS(windows) or Apache(Linux). In IIS to do that you must go to your site bindings and where it says "IP Address", select "All Unassigned" (NOT localhost or 127.0.0.1)so that the web application runs in all network adapters and IP addresses.
See full IIS documentation here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/get-started/getting-started-with-iis/getting-started-with-the-iis-manager-in-iis-7-and-iis-8
Follow the guide: https://medium.com/#manujsdeveloper/debug-a-website-local-or-remote-hosted-on-an-android-mobile-device-ff2c43527be1
You will need to set your phone in developer mode and get the OEM USB driver specific for your phone. and get a ADB running on your computer
I suggest supplement your knowledge with with links below, as some things are left out in the above guide and vice versa:
https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/adb
https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/remote-debugging
I installed on my server, a Bug tracker which is accessible through port 3000 (http://myserver:3000).
Every thing is ok on my server, i can access to my web application any time, but in my job's computer, i cannot even connect to this application and no other web application which run on different port other than 80.
I have added a role on the windows Firewall settings by letting connection to and from port 3000. But same result.
If some one have a solution to this, i'll be thankful.
Best Regards
Is it possible that your work network is blocking your home machine. Can you ping your home machine or access it with its ip address? When you type
http://myserver:3000
are you doing this from the local intranet? If you have your bug server on your home machine then you won't be able to access
http://myserver:3000
from your work machine without a fully qualified domain nae or ip address?
If the above answers are all resolved then whenever I have such difficulties on windows, I do the following. If you don't have admin rights you might not be able to do this.
temporarily disable all firewall/antivirus programs.
Start web server listening on port 80 (on your home machine)
Access from a different machine if this works then
Start web server on 3000
Access from a different machine.
If it works then it is a matter of finding whether the problem was that the web request was being blocked by the firewall or antivirus. In your case it appears it might be the antivirus. To confirm disable all antivirus for a moment.
Make sure you turn your antivirus/firewall back on once the problem is diagnosed!
I am a noob when it comes to network. Recently, I was trying to help a friend edit php code. In his office, there is a computer running which he said is the server that hosts the site. But he is not sure since the guy that build the site is unreachable now. So, he gave me the password and username to this local server but no ip to me. I have no idea how to connect to this "in house" server.
I see that there are several computers in the office and I tried to ssh to their LAN ip, ie. 1.1.1.1... to 1.1.1.10 something like that but none of the connection went through.
When I look up the ip of the website and put the ip into the browser, it actually goes to networksolutions.com. So guys, do you think the source code can be found on networksolutions.com(which is what I think) or is there a way to try to connect to this "in house" server(I am not even sure whether there's anything in it).
Have you tried attaching a monitor and keyboard to this server to determine what it is?
The IP of the site appears to be virtual hosted by Network Solutions. It is likely the server in the room is in fact not the server, instead that is handled by NetSol.
if you know the local ip range of the network which is normally either 10.*.*.* or 192.168.*.* or so you can use nmap to locate any servers quite quickly like: nmap -vvv 192.168.0.* which takes 5 seconds to find 4 end points
I have Deployed my Asp.net web application on IIS 7.0 on localMachine(Server) and it is working fine there.
But when i try to access it from other machine in LAN, It gives me error that, 'Internet Explorer Can Not find this Page.'
I am accessing it on terminals using server name address and also tried using IP address.
Even I have Shared the Application Folder in network.
Check the Windows Firewall on your Vista PC. You need to let TCP port 80 through.
Make sure that you enable the firewall and bind to IP addresses other than localhost.
You don't need to and should not share the application folder.
This is a security risk as people on the network will be able to access the source code of the application. Also, it won't help with the problems you're having because a network share is not accessed over HTTP and so will never hit IIS and your web application. So you can turn off sharing for the folder and be safe in the knowledge that this isn't the issue.
Next, check your windows firewall and make sure incomming web trafic is allowed ("http" or "port 80").
Next I would have a look at the host headers that the site is running on.
Then maybe update your question with more detail.
Greg
You may also want to ensure that IIS is listening on the correct IP Address. This problem can occur if you switch from a LAN connection to a wireless connection (for example when taking a work laptop home).
To Check this, open inetmgr and right-click on the 'Default Web Site' node. Verify that the IP Address entry is set to the current IP of your machine.
Guys, been knocking my head against the desk (instead of the mac) for hours. I'm running VS 2008 in a parallels VM. I can access the development server in the VM if local host is used, if I use the designated ip for the VM or try to access it externally it does not work. All firewalls are off and I verified that I can access iis externally.
Any Ideas what could be wrong?
I ran into this same problem and am using a TCP tunnel to bypass it. Download this Java app & just tunnel the traffic back. No messing with IIS necessary!
http://jcbserver.uwaterloo.ca/cs436/software/tgui/tcpTunnelGUI.shtml
In command prompt, you'd then run the java app like this... Let's assume you want external access on port 80 and your standard debug environment runs on port 1088...
java -jar tunnel.jar 80 localhost 1088
Yes, it is by design. Consider using IIS instead.
The first answer is that you can't do it because the development server is specifically made to just run locally, otherwise it becomes a security risk.
The second answer is that you can get around anything, this hints that there is a way to do it using a reverse-proxy (but the post he links to seems to be dead)
EDIT : After viewing RichardOD's answer, I fear that my answer below is wrong and you can not access it using IP.
But I suggest you to go with deploying it to IIS.
The VS2008 internal web server ( which I guess is cassini ) creates a port for your app and runs a web server for your app on that port. If you want to access it from outside the machine you have to use that port in addition to IP.