On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Matthew Smith wrote: > > Windows 7 has a telnet client. Just go to turn windows features on or off.
Ah, sweet, thanks! My looking only got as far as typing "telnet" and getting "command not found". :) > I changed the hosts entry to: > 192.168.1.2 mysitedotcom Seems correct. > Still could not connect. You were close on the telnet command. The real power comes from being able to specify the port as the seoond argument, so what you're going to want to do is: On the actual server, try telneting to itself first: > telnet 192.168.1.2 80 (assuming the webserver is running on port 80, the default) If the port is open you should get this back (or something similar): Trying 192.168.1.2... Connected to 192.168.1.2. Escape character is '^]'. (You can hit enter I thinik, or ctrl+] to get out, and then quit telnet). Assuming that worked, now you'll repeat the process on the dev machine: > telnet 192.168.1.2 80 If you don't get the same response, you know that there's likely a firewall issue. If, on the other hand, the first test didn't pass, you need to verify that the webserver isn't listening only to localhost (the loopback, 127.0.0.1)-- generally you can tell if that's what is going down by trying: > telnet localhost 80 and that works but the other IP it has (192.x.x.x) doesn't. That little telnet technique has helped me track down more troubles like this than I can count. There are way cooler tools, but that's generally my first go-to. Keep us posted as to how you get on! :denny -- When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order. Meister Eckha ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:311260 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
