Some Help If Posible ?

[Muff]

Ok This Is My First Time Doing Something Like This And I Can't Seem To Follow Certain Directions ( And No I'm Not Stupid ! ) lol
I Believe i got everything set up the right way ( i think ) and i tryed to look at my website on enternet explorer and it says cannot find server ???
how ever i do know alot about working on html,dhtml,java,applets,php And Alot Of Graphics / Could Someone Please Point Me In The Right Direction To Get Started !!! I Would Really Be Thankful ...
Muff

[marc2003]

a few questions. can you access the console. is the server running (doh). can you access it using http://127.0.0.1

[Muff]

Yes Marc The Server Is Running

[olly86]

is the server running on the normal port (port 80)?
can you access the server through http://127.0.0.1?
have you got a firewall running (ie: the built in Xp firewall or a 3rd party one)?
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Olly

[aprelium]

Muff,

127.0.0.1 is valid only locally (on the computer where Abyss runs).

To access your machine from the other computer on your network (LAN), you
should use the LAN IP of the computer. Run the Windows command ipconfig in a
DOS command box to know this IP (it is usually of the form 192.168.*.* where
* are numbers ranging from 0 to 255). This LAN IP works only inside your
LAN.

To access the server from the outside, people should use your router's WAN
IP (or external IP). It is the IP assigned to it by your ISP. This WAN IP
can be known by browsing http://www.aprelium.com/ip from your computer. If
you have a router, you must configure it to forward incoming requests to the
web port to your computer so that Abyss Web Server can respond to them.

If your WAN IP changes often, You'll need to use the services of a free DNS
provider that can track those IP changes and give you a DNS name. We suggest
looking at http://www.dyndns.org or at
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/Address_Management/Dynamic_DNS_Services/?tc=1 .
This way, you'll always access your server using an address like
http://www.yourserver.freednsprovider.com without paying attention to IP
changes.

If you have problems to make your server reachable from the outside, we
recommend reading http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/faq.html#A1-2 .

Notice that if you are using Windows XP, you must correctly configure its
internal Firewall: open the control panel, select the Networking section and
open the properties of your network interface. Select the Advanced Tab and
press the Parameters button (it should be in the bottom of the page). This
button will open a dialog where you can allow incoming connection to some
ports. If Abyss Web Server uses port 80, check the Web Server (HTTP) line.
If it uses another port, press Add... and enter the number of the port Abyss
uses as the internal port (select TCP and fill the other parameters
following the descriptions).
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Support Team
Aprelium - http://www.aprelium.com