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How to host the website in WAN?
Hi all,
I have developed my site with ASP.NET and SQL Server 2008. I wanna host my website in WAN? ..How can I achieve this task?...Currently people can access my site in LAN network.
Where all the computers are behind one router including mine. I have tested on WAN network to access my site by putting the IP address at front but its saying Website not found.
Can anyone tell me how can I achieve this task?
Thanks in Advance.
I have developed my site with ASP.NET and SQL Server 2008. I wanna host my website in WAN? ..How can I achieve this task?...Currently people can access my site in LAN network.
Where all the computers are behind one router including mine. I have tested on WAN network to access my site by putting the IP address at front but its saying Website not found.
Can anyone tell me how can I achieve this task?
Thanks in Advance.
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Hi fmarshall:,
Thanks for the reply. Most of your assumptions are right with the IP addresses but I'm having only small LAN with only one router. I wanna show the applications to my client . Thats why I wanna publish my application on WAN. However I don't have any static IP address. so How the setup would be if i have only one router?.
Thanks for the reply. Most of your assumptions are right with the IP addresses but I'm having only small LAN with only one router. I wanna show the applications to my client . Thats why I wanna publish my application on WAN. However I don't have any static IP address. so How the setup would be if i have only one router?.
You will have to forward your port 80 and setup an dynamic ip address service like DNS2GO o Dyndns.org.
The dynamic ip service will allow people to locate your web server independently of your ip addresss.
If you dont want to go through the trouble you should use a hosting service for your web application.
The dynamic ip service will allow people to locate your web server independently of your ip addresss.
If you dont want to go through the trouble you should use a hosting service for your web application.
OK. As long as you aren't going to widely publish the web site then you could do this:
1) Set your internet interface to "always on" if you can. This will rather help keep your IP address for longer periods of time.
2) Go to www.whatismyip.com to get your public IP if you can't see it in your router interface "status" usually. Send that IP address to your customer. Otherwise use a dynamic dns addressing method so they can address your site by a URL.
3) In the router, forward port 80 to the computer that is serving up the web site. You'll need to have an http server running of course. For example see Apache at:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/platform/windows.html
Presumably you have all the necessary internet security software running on the server.
This approach isn't as robust from a security point of view but it meets your stated criterion of "one router".
1) Set your internet interface to "always on" if you can. This will rather help keep your IP address for longer periods of time.
2) Go to www.whatismyip.com to get your public IP if you can't see it in your router interface "status" usually. Send that IP address to your customer. Otherwise use a dynamic dns addressing method so they can address your site by a URL.
3) In the router, forward port 80 to the computer that is serving up the web site. You'll need to have an http server running of course. For example see Apache at:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/platform/windows.html
Presumably you have all the necessary internet security software running on the server.
This approach isn't as robust from a security point of view but it meets your stated criterion of "one router".
If this is for a limited time, you might consider showing your client the application through a web presentation solution like gotomypc or webex. By doing this, you're sharing your desktop for a short period of time through a connection the provider asserts is secure.
Here's more info on DMZs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMZ_(computing)
Check the arquitecture section for network physical layout graphs.