danielwebb
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WHY ISN'T MY ROUTER LETTING PORT 80 THROUGH???
hey guys i set up a site on godaddy.com I'm going to be hosting it from my windows xp pro system at home. I have installed the IIS on the system. The system is wirelessly connected to a dlink di-524 router with ports 80 and 3389 forwarded to my xp pro system which has a static ip. but when i go to the website, which i have forwarded to my ip address it can't locate the page. do you think time warner is blocking port 80? or is it something with the computer or my setup at godaddy.com?
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To find out if Port 80 is blocked by TW, go outside your network (use a free Internet proxy website, do it from work, or get someone on EE to do it) and go to http://your.ip.address (i.e. http://4.2.2.2/) and see if the page loads. If it does, then the problem is with your forwarding, cache, or related. If it doesn't, then GoDaddy is out of the picture, and it's a firewall / ISP / ISS issue. Can you hit the website from the server by going to http://127.0.0.1/ or http://localhost/ ?
Also, you are using your PUBLIC IP address and not the private address of the IIS server, right?
Also, you are using your PUBLIC IP address and not the private address of the IIS server, right?
Checking in... Were you able to use any of this?
Joe Jenkins
Joe Jenkins
1. Click on the domain name and the page will reload with that domain's information on the right side of the screen.
2. Click the + sign on the "Total DNS Control", it will again reload the page with this sub category being exposed.
3. Select "Total DNS Control And MX Records " from the list. It will spawn a window.
4. Under your HOST or A record you should see something like this:
Host Points To TTL
@ XX.XXX.XXX.XXX 3600 Edit Delete
5. Click Edit.
6. Leave the host name as "@"
7. Under Step 2 change it to your IP.
8. Leave the TTL value at 1 hour.
9. Click continue and logout. Give it up to 45 minutes for all of that to replicate through GoDaddy's server. Try your site.
Let me know how that goes.
Joe