How to access my "local website" from outside

Shaye87 · 11 Oct 2008 at 17:14

Hello there,
I have IIS web server installed on a local machine, with a website running in it, everything is working perfectly except the fact that when i try to access the site with the local ip (http://10.0.0.7) it works from my network computers, but when i try to access the site with my external IP it takes me to my router's control panel :mad:

any idea how to solve this? i want people to be able to view the site from outside as well not just from local network computers...

Shaye87 · 11 Oct 2008 at 17:45

and is it safe?

Shaye87 · 11 Oct 2008 at 18:00

well I have forwarded the port 80 TCP to 10.0.0.7, now when i try to access to the site using my external ip address it still takes me to the routers control panel, and if i type in the browser http://10.0.0.7 it tells me that the page can not be found... :|

Not Found

HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found.

Shaye87 · 11 Oct 2008 at 18:23

OK and are you guys sure that forwarding port TCP 80 to my internal ip is "safe" and not risky in any way?

Shaye87 · 11 Oct 2008 at 18:31

OK I appreciate the help for now, will probably have some more questions soonish

seems like it's all good now.
Will secure it as much as I can.

Shaye87 · 12 Oct 2008 at 17:58

PCZ I thank you, I got everything sorted yesterday though!

Thanks again.