All of theese things I do have but I can not access my IP from the internet. it says page not found. Do I need to configure my DSL router? and what IP address do I use the one for the router or the one for my computer? I am wanting to run my own website and do remote desktop connections. I even configured the computer for the remote desktop connections but it cannot access it outside of the office. In the office I can access FTP and HTTP as well as the remote desktop but once outside of the office on an external computer I have no luck. Please Help.
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"How Can I Host My Own Website. I Have Iis, A Static Ip And A Domain Name Registered And I Have A Dsl Router?" was posted on Monday, January 25th, 2010 at 5:24 am.
Depending on your router’s capabilities. If your router can be a virtual server then you can host your HTTP(WEBSITE, FTP or even TELNET like the router in the link below. What Virtual Server basically does is it automatically redirect the remote users accessing Web, FTP, Etc. via public IP Address(your Router’s IP Address) to local server in the LAN. Read the manual of your router and check if it has that kind of capabilities. http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=62
The reason why it has an error whenever you are trying to access your webiste from outside of your office is that the registered domain name is pointing to a wrong address you should use the IP address of your router not the IP addres of your computer.
YOu can access FTP,HTTP, Remote desktop services from your computer in your office becuase your computer as well as other computers is in one network thus the IP address you specified is pointing to the right computer which is your computer that has HTTP, FTP, remote desktop services.
Hope you get my point. But if you still have question just PM me.. absalvamantejr
You do need to configure your router. There are several ways to do this.
You can setup a route table with the static address you want to use to the ip of the computer you want to use. Check under IP Maps and NAT routing. Make sure traffic can forward on the ports that you want open. These are usually straightforward as host/destination entries.
If this still doesn’t resolve your problem, try assigning the ip address of the machine as static in the form of:
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX – Your static
255.255.255.248 – subnet
DNS : Contact your isp for this one
DNS2: ” ”
As for hosting make sure your DNS entries from your Domain name provider point to your Static IP address that you mapped in your router to your machine(computer/webserver/etc) or the machine you did a static ip on.
Could help more is you specify which router and host.
All the best.
Although it is cheeper, I dont recommend hosting your own site. What happens when your DSL (or power) goes down? How fast of UPLOAD speeds do you have? What happens when the server goes down? Are you there to monitor it 24×7x365? DSL is extremely slow, and not for hosting sites. Your ISP will also be doing port scans – and when they catch your server (very easy) – your internet will be shut down.
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point your registered domain name to your ip address(the one given by your isp). goto your router setting and set it so that it forwards the port 80 to your router ip address(usually 192.168.1.xxx).
hopes it work.