On Saturday 18 December 2004 21:47, amalasingh wrote: > Derek Jennings wrote: >>> On Saturday 18 December 2004 17:23, amalasingh wrote: >>> >>> Folks, >>> >>> I am a mdk10.1 user. I am trying to access my localhost by >>> typing my WAN IP address. >>> But it just goes to the Router firewall page. I checked my >>> router settings(especially virtual server configuration) all >>> set correctly. Also confirmed with the router vendor. >>> The vendor says we need technical expertise to forward the >>> local server. Is that true? Do I need to have some networking >>> knowledge to do forward even my http local server??
>>> I use just default ports(80) >>> Please help me. >>> Cheers >>> Amala Singh > >> Didn't you already ask this question? >> The answer remains the same. >> >> If you want people from the internet to reach your web server you must >> disable access to your router administration from the internet, and >> configure your router to forward port 80 to your local IP address. That is >> all internal to your router configuration. Nothing to do with Linux. >> Have you configured port forwarding in the router? How is it set up? >> >> Be aware that if you are trying to access your web server from inside your >> local network by entering your WAN IP address, your router is probably not >> going to forward the connection and will always display the admin page. So >> just because you see the admin page does not necessarily mean that other >> people see it. >> >> derek > Derek, > > You are the man. Yes, I asked the question before. I am trying to access my > web server from inside the local network only. I hope that that should be > the problem. I will ask some body else to see that from outside. > > Tnx for the help. > > Cheers > Amala Singh Well if you are using the same IP address you sent this mail from (213.40.155.128 ), then I have already tried it. The response is no reply. The good news is that I do not get your router admin page. The bad news is I do not get your web server either. Before you ask. The easy way to enable a web server in Mandrake is to install the drakwizard package and then start Mandrake Control Centre. There will be a new server section in which is a wizard to set up an Apache web server. There will be a default home page provided. To add new pages insert them into the directory /var/www/html derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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