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smiddieus
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:50 am    Post subject: Cannot bring up web site Reply with quote

I just cannot figure out how or what I am doing wrong. I can access my site from 127.0.0.1 but when I type in www.moveonup.us I get page cannot be found. Can anyone help me with this. I have a print-out of the users guide and have read it but I just can't get why I cannot connect. I am not running any router, just straight DSL through my Network Card. Please Help! I also am running DirectUpdate and have DNS through Zonedit :?: :?: smiddieus@moveonup.us
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:05 am    Post subject: Re: Cannot bring up web site Reply with quote

smiddieus,

We suggest reading the following general guide to know how to make your server accessible (depending on the computer location) and how to configure a domain name. Note that nothing special should be done on Abyss Web Server's side.

Locally (from your computer), you can use 127.0.0.1 or localhost to access the server. The full local URL is displayed in Abyss' main window (Local web server URL).

To access your machine from another 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. The web site http://www.portforward.com/ contains step-by-step port forwarding configuration instructions for most routers. If you didn't understand how to do with your router, please let us know what is its type (brand name and model) and will do our best to help you setting it up.

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 (and nothing should be configured on Abyss Web Server X1's side. It will recognize it automatically).

You can also buy a top level domain name (for example, my-company.com) and use the associate your external IP with it using the registrar services or the free http://www.zoneedit.com/ . You can find more information about this topic in
http://www.dslwebserver.com/main/domain-name.html . You can also find many messages and discussions on our forum http://www.aprelium.com/forum about DNS and domain names.

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).

To test your external site accessibility, we recommend using a proxy service such as http://www.proxify.com (you can find a more extensive list of sites providing proxy service in
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Proxying_and_Filtering/Hosted_Proxy_Services/Free/CGI_Proxy/ ). It will help you see how the rest of the world sees your site by browsing it remotely for you and giving you the results (this is often easier than asking a friend to test it for you).

To work with your site locally using its domain name, we suggest using this tip: For example, let's say you want to test the host http://www.myhost.com locally. In the computer where you used to browse http://127.0.0.1 to get the web site (which doesn't work anymore since the host has a name), open with Notepad (or any text editor) the file:

C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (if you are using Windows NT, 2000, or XP Pro)
or
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (if you are using Windows XP Home or 2003)
or
C:\WINDOWS\hosts (if you are using Windows 95,98, or ME)

and add at the end of that file a line of the form:

127.0.0.1 www.mysite.com

Save the file and browse http://www.mysite.com locally . You should see the web site.

This file act like a local domain names database. The system does a lookup in it before contacting an external DNS server to resolve the domain name requested in the browser.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nothing worked not even the 127.0.0.1 www.moveonup.us in the host dir
Sorry I just want to host my site but I have done everything that is in the tutorialls. Sorry I just wanna host my site but something is wrong....please help.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

smiddieus wrote:
Nothing worked not even the 127.0.0.1 www.moveonup.us in the host dir
Sorry I just want to host my site but I have done everything that is in the tutorialls. Sorry I just wanna host my site but something is wrong....please help.


Maybe your isp is blocking port 80

if you tell us your wan ip address then we could check to see if it works

Edit:
Just did a ping of www.moveonup.us
Quote:
ping www.moveonup.us
PING www.moveonup.us (70.106.219.170) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from pool-70-106-219-170.chi.dsl-w.verizon.net (70.106.219.170): icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=144 ms
64 bytes from pool-70-106-219-170.chi.dsl-w.verizon.net (70.106.219.170): icmp_seq=2 ttl=47 time=150 ms
64 bytes from pool-70-106-219-170.chi.dsl-w.verizon.net (70.106.219.170): icmp_seq=3 ttl=47 time=142 ms
64 bytes from pool-70-106-219-170.chi.dsl-w.verizon.net (70.106.219.170): icmp_seq=4 ttl=47 time=146 ms
64 bytes from pool-70-106-219-170.chi.dsl-w.verizon.net (70.106.219.170): icmp_seq=5 ttl=47 time=144 ms
64 bytes from pool-70-106-219-170.chi.dsl-w.verizon.net (70.106.219.170): icmp_seq=6 ttl=47 time=150 ms
64 bytes from pool-70-106-219-170.chi.dsl-w.verizon.net (70.106.219.170): icmp_seq=7 ttl=47 time=143 ms
64 bytes from pool-70-106-219-170.chi.dsl-w.verizon.net (70.106.219.170): icmp_seq=8 ttl=47 time=144 ms

--- www.moveonup.us ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 received, 0% packet loss, time 7006ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 142.999/145.796/150.887/2.942 ms


I take it from the results that 70.106.219.170 is your wan ip address
and your isp is verizon
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes you are correct on both accounts. Any ideas?
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Change Abyss' port to something else, like 100.

Let us know and we'll see if we can access http://70.106.219.170:100.

BTW, are you using a router or firewall?
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