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I was wondering why not host the application from my office itself? I have a static IP. What else do I need to make my local server accessible on the Internet? I know I need a domain name but I am new to hosting so I don't know how to go about it. How will I link my static WAN IP to the domain. Right now when I type my WAN IP on the net , my ISP shows up a site blocked page. I don't know what to do.
It is an ASP.net web app.
There are a number of things that need to fall in place before the web application will be accessible from the Internet.
You need to open the relevant ports on your router/firewall (Port 80/443 for web apps).
If you are in a NAT situation you need to forward the ports to the right machine.
The machine also needs to have its firewall set to open the ports.
The above steps will allow the page to load via the IP address only. To load the page with a domain name you need to adjust your site's DNS server to recognize the IP address for that domain name.
All of this is very broad because without knowing your exact configuration detailed answers can't be given.
First, are your sure the IP address you have at your office is a static public ip address? You may have an internal IP. What I mean is that YOUR Computer may have an internal IP address so yo would need to configure your router to forward connections to port 80 to your specific IP address inside your LAN.
You can register your domain at any registrar of your choice (I am hesitant to mention one). You should have an option to link your domain name to your IP address somewhere at the registrar's site. After you do this, you should be able to go http://yourdomainjustregistered.com and hit your IIS Server.
My understanding is that versions of IIS that are shipped with regular home computers have restrictions on how many connections can be made concurrently. You would need to get a Server version of Windows.
If your ISP shows a site blocked page when you type your ip address, it may be the case that they block port 80 to their customers so that they don't run personal websites without paying them a fee. You need to find out what's their policy regarding this, drop them if they do something like this and find another ISP. Alternatively, you can run your web server on a different port (8180, for example) and use all kinds of techniques to redirect users that hit http://yourdomain.com to this port on your box. You would need to adjust IIS to listen on this port too.
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I've got a Draytek Vigor 2820 that's used to connect to the internet. WAN1 is used as an ADSL backup, and WAN2 is our main fibre connection. WAN2 has a total of 6 IP addresses, a single dynamic one and 5 static IPs and is configured up as a PPPoE connection with DynamicIP.
I use NAT Port Redirection to open up some specific ports to various servers (web development, FTP, RDC etc)
I use NAT Open Ports to open up some static IP ports to specific servers
I use NAT Address Mapping to force all traffic received on one static IP to our Exchange server
What I want to do is to force outgoing traffic to use one of the static IPs and have hit a brick wall. Ideally I'd like to force specific traffic but would settle for all!
Under LAN is the ability to configure Static Routes, but this is purely there to allow internal routing (for VLANs).
Anybody else who has this type of router and can give me any suggestions?
OK, managed to work this one out.
Under WAN > Internet Access, select WAN2
On the PPPoE page, change the "Fixed IP" to Yes and enter one of the static IP's into the Fixed IP Address box. Click OK and then reboot the router.
All traffic will now go from that IP address. If you go back to the same page and click WAN IP Alias, the top spot will have the IP address entered in it which will likely be repeated in the list, I just removed the 'double' from the NAT pool and everything seems to work OK.
Sadly there appears to be no way of having all traffic to one IP being sent via one static IP
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I am very new in networking and setting up server. I have only used XAMPP to develop my site locally on my desktop computer. I did some researches and learn about all those network equipment online, but I found myself still confused about what I need to do to set up a server between computers. So I hope I can find the answers from experts. I have 4 computers in my office, and I am trying to create a local network that allows all 4 computers to access the files and localhost in the desktop computer.
1.) I have a modem and a router. My desktop computer and the other 2 computers are using wireless while my sister's computer is using cable that connects to the modem. In order for my sister and the other computers to access my files and localhost, do I need to plug all of the computers into a switch?
2.) I have read online that people set up port forwarding to allow others to access their website online. But right now I am just trying to make a local files and web server, do I need to set up port forwarding as well?
I am using Windows Vista and XAMPP. I couldn't solve any of the questions and confusion after 1 week of looking through online. So if anyone has a detailed guide for setting local file/web server, that will help me so much and thank you for your time as well.
1) You do not need a switch for setting up a server. An switch is just a device that basicly expands the amount cabled network connections you have. Most routers come often with 4 LAN ports and one WAN(probably conencted to your modem).
If you have lets say, 5 computers that needs a cabled connection. You will need a switch to be able to connect all those computers at the same time.
2) You only need to do port forwarding if you want others to connect from outside your local network. If you want to put a website up on a server, you will need to port forward port 80 (the port for http) to your servers local IP.
All port forwaring does is to say to your router that if it gets a packet of data with this port number to your public IP, then send it to this spesific local IP adress (your server with XAMPP). If you don't port forward, the router doesent know what local ip adress to send the packet of data to, then it just discards it, which means others cant access your website.
If you want to open your website from outside your local network, and have port forwarded your router. You probably want to setup a domain with DDNS (dynamic domain name system).
What that does is that people can write something like "www.google.com" instead of your public ip adress. A good site for that is: http://www.no-ip.com . Keep in mind that if you don't want to add a domain and just use the ip adress, your routers public IP address may change over time. Unless you have ordered a static IP address from your ISP (Internet service provider).
For your file server i would suggest a FileZilla FTP Server (FTP = File Transport Protocoll). Set this up on your server machine and follow this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=251TQq98zmo . Then after you have set up and configured your FTP server, you can connect your clients to the server.
I would suggest this guide to connect your other machines to the FTP server:
http://www.wintuts.com/Map-Network-Drive
Keep in mind if you want to access your FTP server from outside your network you will need to port forward both port 20 and 21. For security reasons i will strongly suggesting a password on your FTP server, unless you want anyone to connect to it.
Hope this helped!
-Kad
(PS: just comment on this post if something is unclear, or have further questions! :D )
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I have a modem that is connected to a router. There are two computers connected to this router. I want to set a domain for one of those computers so that I can access the web deployment server running in that computer from Internet. I used freedns.afraid.org to get a free subdomain. But when I set it up, the domain is getting mapped to my external IP address. So, the problem is that when I try to access the set domain, I am only accessing the modem's configuration page i.e. EXTERNAL_IP:80
In my local network, my modem's IP address is 192.168.0.1 , my router's IP address is 192.168.1.1 and my computers take IP addresses anywhere between 192.168.1.100 and 192.168.1.148
Also, my router is Linksys WRT54G and is only capable of default DDNS configuration to dyndns and TZO. Since both have become paid services, I opted for free DDNS and I'll use some DDNS update client to update the dynamic IP.
I don't know how to search specifically for this problem in google. Also, I came across port forwarding which was used under similar topics. I am new to this, so can anyone suggest me how to redirect my domain to the particular host or is there any reference page I can learn the procedure from? SOLVED
UPDATE ON THE QUESTION (NEW ISSUE)
Since I didn't have port forwarding option in my modem and also my modem didn't by default forward everything to the router, I had to set up my modem as a bridge to my router. I disabled the modem's DHCP server and enabled only the router's DHCP server. This allowed me to configure port forwarding in the router alone and is working good.
But the problem now is, I am not able to access the modem's configuration page (192.168.1.1). My router is at 192.168.1.2 . Subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 . I tried changing the router to a different subnet say 192.168.0.1, but then the internet connectivity didn't even establish. I tried connecting my computer directly to the modem to access it's configuration page, but that also failed.
If you want to redirect my domain to the particular host you need to setup NAT-Virtual Server Setup .
here you need to map remote port to internal map.
In above image IP address is my IP of my host and Default address is my router's IP address
Now you have configure NAT in you router as bellow.
in above image server IP is you host IP address.
I am using D-Link router so this Image is according to that if you are using some different router then you might have different view.
After configuring this when you type EXTERNAL_IP:80 your request will be forwarded to application that is running on you host with that port
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I have just set up a WAMP 2.2 localhost on my computer. I have everything running properly (I can execute PHP, MYSQL, etc...) and am now wondering how I would point my localhost to a public ip-address that could be accessed outside of my network. Is this possible? If so, how would I do that?Thanks!
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Specs: windows, wamp 2.2.... Needed just to serve MYSQL and MYSQLI databases, php, html, js, and css files to people outside of my network. I prett much want ot create a basic website with my localhost.
Have a look at localtunnel. Very handy for services that callback to your server (like paypal etc).
For alternatives on windows there is discussion here.
Finally you could forward a port back to your internal machine and use service like dyndns.
I couldn't tell you the best one to use without knowing more about your specific needs.
EDIT: Upon seeing what you really want to do, I would suggest forwarding a port on your router back to your webserver. There is a simple guide here that you should be able to figure out how to apply to your situation. Then you want to use something like dyndns as mentioned to register your own IP address to a name out onto the web.
Apache is most likely bound to 0.0.0.0 (all IPs of system) and your VirtualHost probably uses a name-based (not IP-based) set up, and does not restrict the localhost VirtualHost to 127.0.0.1 (I'm more familiar with Wamp-Developer Pro than with WampServer, but I'd be surprised otherwise).
So any request that reaches Apache will end up at the VirtualHost that matches the domain-name under it's ServerName or ServerAlias directive, or will return the default VirtualHost.
You'll need to 1) unblock incomming port 80 and 443 in Windows Firewall, 2) port-forward Router WAN 80 and 443 to LAN IP, and 3) hope that your ISP does not block incomming port 80 requests.
You'll also need to use a registered domain-name, and will need to set it's DNS to point to your public IP address (which will be the Router's IP). Or transfer the domain-name's DNS to a Dynamic DNS service's nameservers ... that will sync the domain-name to the changing public IP address.
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Recently, I saw I introduction on CDN at
http://www.aflexi.net/technology/how-aflexi-cdn-works
I was wondering, why user's web browser will know it need to contact Aflexi DNS Server in Los Angeles, but not DNS Server provided by ISP (Like AOL)?
Thanks!
Your Internet Service Provider will likely push the DNS server information through the DHCP protocol (of course, you can override this information locally on your machine). This is how your machine will get configured with DNS servers to launch queries against.
The way a CDN works is as follows: companies relying on CDN based delivery of their contents will manage their domains through a CDN provider. When a request comes for say domain D, a machine will contact its configured DNS server and will be directed to the "authoritative entity" for the domain D in question. From this point, the CDN DNS server can reply with an answer that provides a binding to an IP address "closest" to where the request originated.
The property "closest" is determined, amongst other things, based on the requesting machine's IP address. It is nonetheless non-trivial to assign a "metric" based on this information: there is no direct correlation between "IP address" and "physical location", vital information for effecting as best as possible contents to the requesting machines.
This usually works by assigning the same IP address to a number of authoritative DNS servers for the domain around the world, and playing some tricks with routing in the internet default-free zone such that every request goes to the closest server (measured in network hops, not miles). This is called 'IP Anycast'. The different servers can then deliver whatever answers the provider wants them to. It's a good solution because network topology matters much more to performance than physical distance.