Showing a webpage on my PC using IIS

Jon12345

Jon12345

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I had a home network setup where you could view a webpage on my PC by typing in an IP address. Now that I have moved house, I am connecting to a wireless network.

How can I get that wireless network to see a specific page on a specific PC? Is it a nat setting or something?

Thanks,

Jon
 
Couple questions:

1. Is the hardware the same as it was before? (router + pc's).
2. Is the web page accessible externally or only locally?
 
If you wish to have the local (WLAN) PCs able to view the intranet pages, you'll need to first assign the hosting/serving PC with a static IP address in the router's config (for example http://192.168.0.2).

Then your local PCs will be able to browse to that address (or else \\PC-Name) to see the content. If you're asking about serving pages WAN-side (to the internet) then I'd advise you connect the hosting/serving PC to the router via ethernet; in fact you should do that anyway. You will then need to set a static IP (as for local serving) and open port 80 on the router and forward it to that static IP. You'll only need to do this if you're serving pages to the internet (WAN) not the intranet (LAN/WLAN), and only then if it's a "normal" machine. If it's a dedicated server you may as well stick it in the DMZ.

If you have a domain and the PC is serving the internet (WAN), your local (LAN/WLAN) PCs won't be able to resolve that domain unless your router has NAT loopback, so don't let that catch you out into thinking the PC isn't serving pages...been there, done that! :o

By the sounds of it though you're simply wanting to host a page/site on your local network (an 'intranet') for the other PCs in your house to view. In which case it doesn't matter whether you're on wifi or ethernet, though the latter is preferable. In either case the setup is the same, as detailed above.

I'm sure someone will be along soon to tell you how wrong I am, but that's how I do it. Oh, except I run Apache for the proverbial win. :D

EDIT: Damn you sp00n and your l33t non-waffling skillz.
 
The PC's are the same as before but the wireless cards and router are different. The router is a BT Hub thing. Not sure how many features it has.

I am only concerned about the webpage being viewed via the internet.

It might be tricky to connect via an Ethernet cable to the router since its someone else's house and I am on a different floor! Can I still do it wireless?
 
Jon12345 said:
The PC's are the same as before but the wireless cards and router are different. The router is a BT Hub thing. Not sure how many features it has.

I am only concerned about the webpage being viewed via the internet.

It might be tricky to connect via an Ethernet cable to the router since its someone else's house and I am on a different floor! Can I still do it wireless?
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The router you wish to use to serve your site on the internet is in someone else's house? :\ Do they know you're using it? LOL Oh and yes, as per my previous post you'd just need to assign your PC a static IP in the router's config page (web UI) and forward the ports (at least port 80) to that static IP. Your domain (if you have one, I'm guessing giving out an IP is a bit clumsy!) will need a DNS record adding to reflect the new WAN IP of your BT HomeHub connection. If it's a dynamic IP, sign up for a free DynDNS account.
 
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