Problem with other people viewing

[Psycho_Alex]

I'm sure you guys get this about a million times a day but I just cannot figure it out. The problem is that I can view everything on my server fine, but when another person on another computer goes to view it, they cannot. I'm running on a network using a NetGear router, though I'm not hardwired to the router, I'm on a wireless adapter, I'm using Windows XP, and I've gone into my router settings set up port forwarding to 8080 (Which I made my default for the site) for my IP, and I've set it to allow in/out in my anti-virus/firewall (PC-Cillin 2004) I really don't understand what's causing the problem. I looked over everything a couple of times now but I still haven't managed to get it to work correctly. Any suggestions?

[senshi]

and you set the port in the webserver to port 8080 as well?

you access the webserver by machine ID, you need to know the IP address of your server machine, the http:// address of localhost or 127.1 or 127.0.0.1 will serve up if the server is on the local machine.

Open the dialogue for your LAN settings, the popup box which tells you information on your LAN connection will also tell you the machine IP address under the support tab.

you nedd to use that IP address inconjunction with port 8080, eg http://192.168.1.100:8080/ to connect to the webserver.

Does that help you?

[Psycho_Alex]

Yes the port was set to 8080 in the webserver and no, what you explained didn't help. For example my IP would be something along the lines of 192.168.0.11, so for another person to access the files on the server they'd type in the folowing: http://192.168.0.11:8080, am I correct on this? If so then I've already tried this and it failed.

[TRUSTAbyss]

No , your not correct , giving a friend your network IP to test your server will
not allow anyone to the server , you need to find your real IP Address by
going to the following URL http://www.aprelium.com/ip/

[Psycho_Alex]

I figured it'd be that simple. Thanks a bunch it worked!