Topic: Accessing my webserver from outside the network

[janet]

abasel

I can see your site now, by URL or IP

Baselmania
Welcome to our space
We are still developing this site

[abasel]

Yeah thanks ... it looks like I had entered the wrong ip in my port forwarding rules

In answer to Johns last comment


OK... so I deleted the port forwarding rules in the router and placed 192.168.1.2 into the DMZ (is this what you meant)

But I still get the same result ie. externally you can see my webpage  but internally I'm redirected to the router (192.168.1.1).

tracert seems to shows the following

Tracing route to baselmania.homedns.org [121.98.130.111]

over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    20 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  basel01.baselmania.homedns.org [192.168.199.1]
  2     3 ms     1 ms     1 ms  130-98-121-111.bitstream.orcon.net.nz [121.98.130.111]
Trace complete.

I am needing it to point to 192.168.1.2 internally or get 121.98.130.111 when called internally to redirect to the webserver

121.98.130.111 and 192.168.1.1 both return the router webpage internally

[johnp]

You could name your server baselmania and use homedns.org as the primary domain

[johnp]

Actually I think you shoud use baselmania.homedns.org as the primary domain and name the server whatever you want

[abasel]

That's done.... baselmania.homedns.org as primary domain and server is basel01

[johnp]

Does it work now?

[janet]

abasel & johnp

Does it work now?

Actually I think you shoud use baselmania.homedns.org as the primary domain and name the server whatever you want

It looks like abasel had already done that a couple of posts back
"basel01.baselmania.homedns.org [192.168.199.1]"

What about in the Domains panel in server manager, have you configured "Resolve locally" or "Internet DNS servers" for the Domain DNS Servers setting ? Try the latter.

[abasel]

I was doing it using corporate servers and pointing to OpenDNS but even when I change it as you say, it does the same.

If I enter the IP (121.98.130.111) directly it also redirects to my router login although it shows 192.168.1.1 in the browser's address bar.

[abasel]

Changed it to local and its all sweet....... so now I will need to use Dans Guardian to protect for internet content.... I will look for old forum posts on how to do this.

Thanks again

[janet]

abasel

Yes just thinking that through, Resolve locally should work, as you say it does.
Finally there !!!

Don't look through old forums posts, see the Howtos
http://wiki.contribs.org/Category:Howto

and the Contribs
http://wiki.contribs.org/Category:Contrib

and here is Dansguardian
http://wiki.contribs.org/Dansguardian

Please read the Wiki.
http://wiki.contribs.org/Main_Page
and the FAQ
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:FAQ


This thread could actually be the basis of a good wiki Howto article, PPPoA with your SME server

[johnp]

You may also check at dyndns for wildcard support. Since from outside www.baselmania.homedns.org doesn't appear working only baselmania.homedns.org works from here.

[abasel]

Yip no wildcard support for the free service... which is fine for now

[johnp]

They must have changed since I first got mine. Wildcard was free then.