I'm having a mare with the site, since installing my wireless ADSL modem/router at the weekend.
I set up port forwarding to my PC, and the site was accessible for a day or so, then stopped for some reason.
I've also tried adding the PC to the DMZ, but that's not worked.
The router is a BT Voyager 2110, with a web admin front end to set up port forwarding/etc.
I can browse the web, download with bittorent, etc, when using the pc. I'm just having trouble getting the sites hosted on it (eg RZX Archive) to be viewable from the internet. I can view the sites by browsing to local host on the pc, as you would expect.
The PC is connected to the router via an ethernet cable.
Any ideas? I'm looking at replacing the router with another make if I can't get it sorted.
As an additional note, depending on the server you're using you may need to forward ports 80 and 443 (I think) for webserver stuff. I think Apache requires both of those.
But my external IP address is still the same. I've not touched anything to do with DNS, I shouldn't have to?
But what name server points to your machine? If it's neither the old or new ISP, then I'm barking up the wrong tree. If it's either of the two ISPs, then the old one will still be used by some other name servers, and if the old one stops pointing to you, then that explains why some people's HTTP requests don't get through.
It'll sort itself out in a day or two if that's the case.
But what name server points to your machine? If it's neither the old or new ISP, then I'm barking up the wrong tree. If it's either of the two ISPs, then the old one will still be used by some other name servers, and if the old one stops pointing to you, then that explains why some people's HTTP requests don't get through.
It'll sort itself out in a day or two if that's the case.
I haven't changed ISP, nor changed the DNS settings for my domains. All I've done is replaced my USB ADSL Modem for a wireless ADSL/modem router.
The website requests are still reaching my router, but I cannot understand why some people are served a web page, and some aren't.
Looks like it's using the same nameservers as WOS, so probably ones run my Martijn.
Yes, correct (both run by me) :-)
The IP address of www.rzxarchive.co.uk is the same as the one for www.darenp.co.uk, so it ought to work if it's the same box.
But then, Daren uses IIS, which I don't know the first thing about...
Just a thought, but as you have a new router, have you got your internal network set up differently? I also don't know much about IIS, but could it be something to do with the local IP address of the server? I recall some stuff in the Apache configs about the IP addresses that it would accept connections for, or something. So if your local IP address (assigned via DHCP from your router?) has changed that could be the problem.
Of course, I could be talking outta my arse. Which is a great party trick.
Weird. Looking at the server logs for the last couple of days, some people have connected to the site and downloaded RZX files.
The web server is receiving port 80 stuff forwarded from the router. I got the firewall on the server to alert me as a test. However, in the majority of cases, nothing is going back to the user. I can't understand why only a very few users can connect to the site.
This sort of shit really fucks me off, it's not logical. I feel like taking a fucking baseball bat to my PC and router. That'll learn it.
err...dang.
I get this message when clicking on Download:
This file can be downloaded from www.rzxarchive.co.uk
Please note: You may still be seeing this message if downloading from www.rzxarchive.co.uk. This is probably due to the fact that you are running ZoneAlarm. You need to disable this in order to download.
For a better firewall I would recommend Kerio Personal Firewall
err...dang.
I get this message when clicking on Download:
But I AM using KPF :???:
Any hints?
The site checks the referrer HTTP header when downloading to help prevent deep linking, which was an issue in the past. This mostly occurred with ZoneAlarm users, as by default it disables the referer data from being sent.
Look in your firewall settings for something like enabling referrer or private header data.
What version of KPF is it? I'll see if I can find anything to help.
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I set up port forwarding to my PC, and the site was accessible for a day or so, then stopped for some reason.
I've also tried adding the PC to the DMZ, but that's not worked.
The router is a BT Voyager 2110, with a web admin front end to set up port forwarding/etc.
I can browse the web, download with bittorent, etc, when using the pc. I'm just having trouble getting the sites hosted on it (eg RZX Archive) to be viewable from the internet. I can view the sites by browsing to local host on the pc, as you would expect.
The PC is connected to the router via an ethernet cable.
Any ideas? I'm looking at replacing the router with another make if I can't get it sorted.
What do you get exactly? It may help in trying to get the site back up.
Anyway, check out PortForward.com. It may help - I've found it useful in the past. That link should be to info on your router.
Yep, tried that, first place I looked.
up left there's this:
Daren's Web Site
A home hosted site
and below some text:
Home hosting guides:
Thanks to BTOpenworld, my account was wrongly closed and I was offline for over a month.
I am now with Pipex. I strongly recommend them, and they are much cheaper than BTOpenwoe.
To set up my ADSL-connected PC as a web server, I found this FAQ, located here a great help.
Hosting multiple domains on one IP address:
click here to do it with IIS.
As for Pipex - you know how you REALLY don't want to see how sausages and laws are made because it will put you off them for life? Pipex is like that.
Ahh, that's good. That's the default website on my pc, usually accessible via www.darenp.co.uk
That means that the router *is* sending stuff to the pc on port 80. I just need to configure the pc some. But why are only a few people seeing this?
It's IIS, and I've set up port forwarding for 80 only (SSL not needed)
But my external IP address is still the same. I've not touched anything to do with DNS, I shouldn't have to?
It'll sort itself out in a day or two if that's the case.
I haven't changed ISP, nor changed the DNS settings for my domains. All I've done is replaced my USB ADSL Modem for a wireless ADSL/modem router.
The website requests are still reaching my router, but I cannot understand why some people are served a web page, and some aren't.
The IP address of www.rzxarchive.co.uk is the same as the one for www.darenp.co.uk, so it ought to work if it's the same box.
But then, Daren uses IIS, which I don't know the first thing about...
Edit: FWIW, I can't reach either site from here (nor on http://81.86.137.111/ )
Brain-spark.
Just a thought, but as you have a new router, have you got your internal network set up differently? I also don't know much about IIS, but could it be something to do with the local IP address of the server? I recall some stuff in the Apache configs about the IP addresses that it would accept connections for, or something. So if your local IP address (assigned via DHCP from your router?) has changed that could be the problem.
Of course, I could be talking outta my arse. Which is a great party trick.
The web server is receiving port 80 stuff forwarded from the router. I got the firewall on the server to alert me as a test. However, in the majority of cases, nothing is going back to the user. I can't understand why only a very few users can connect to the site.
This sort of shit really fucks me off, it's not logical. I feel like taking a fucking baseball bat to my PC and router. That'll learn it.
That'll TEACH it.
Really? Wow, thanks for pointing that out. I deliberately put learn.
Jamie
Good to see you back, Daren!
ADJB
I'm looking at getting a different modem/router, which hopefully won't have the same problems.
Cheers,
Daren
Nice to have it back :)
Cheers
I get this message when clicking on Download:
But I AM using KPF :???:
Any hints?
The site checks the referrer HTTP header when downloading to help prevent deep linking, which was an issue in the past. This mostly occurred with ZoneAlarm users, as by default it disables the referer data from being sent.
Look in your firewall settings for something like enabling referrer or private header data.
What version of KPF is it? I'll see if I can find anything to help.
[EDIT]
Look here for how to enable the sending of referrers in several firewalls, including Kerio 4:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Enable_Sending_Referrers#Kerio_Firewall_4
[/EDIT]
Cheers,
Daren