I am trying to host a website from home,
www.marineservicecompany.com
I have a box running Microsoft small business server 2003, which uses IIS 6 as the web-server software…which sits behind a cayman-netopia dsl router…this router assigns ip address 192.168.1.1 to my server box, and I have correctly configured a “pinhole” on this router (port forwarding) for tcp port 80 to 192.168.1.1…
I have purchased a static ip from bellsouth, and it is applied to the router correctly…
I have full normal connectivity going out from the server box to the internet…
In IIS, I have created a new website, done all the typical configuration things for it, like setting up anonymous access, set it for port 80, pointed the default directory to c:\inetpub\wwwroot (which is where my default.htm and all other webpage files are stored), the website ip is set to "all unassinged",etc…
No matter what ive tried to do with this, I cannot get the webpage to come up from an external host…
Either by the domain name or the ip address entered into a browser…(when putting the ip address into a browser, i dont get anything...)
In fact, I was told by bellsouth that everything is setup correctly with the router, the pinhole port forwarding, and with their dns system…they say the fact that when the ip address is entered into a webbrowser and nothing is returned, is indicative of something ive done wrong with the server or iis configuration, but I cannot determine what…
as info, i have removed the dns component of sbs2003, since im using my isp's dns system...and ive removed ISA so there is no firewall blocking issue...
when using the browser on the server, going to
http://localhost i can see the website just fine and it is fully functional...
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