Windows Firewall interferes with Web publishing

[Ken]

Hi guys. I've a new computer (the old one died) with Windows XP Home.
I use the program Nvu 1.0 to publish my webpage/s.

Both my ISP and I are puzzled by something we observed the other day.
With the Windows Firewall running, the webpage wouldn't publish - though
Nvu went through the motions of publishing it and afterwards indicated
'page successfully published' (but then didn't shut down its 'publish
page' box as it normally would). That is, the webpage visible in a
browser remained unchanged. (Yes, we did hit the 'refresh' button.)

Moreover, even when in the Windows Firewall's 'Exceptions' list
(accessible via Control Panel) we entered both the program Nvu itself
and the particular port Nvu uses for publishing to the Web, the
webpage/s still wouldn't publish with Windows Firewall running. But as
soon as we turned Windows Firewall off, there was again no problem in
publishing to the Web.

Any ideas, please?

Thanks - Ken

 

[DL]

The win firewall doesnt block outgoing, it only blocks incoming, so it would
appear to be blocking an incoming pkt

 

[Ken]

The win firewall doesnt block outgoing, it only blocks incoming, so it would
appear to be blocking an incoming pkt

Thanks, DL, amd I'll investigate further. Am actually thinking of
turning off Windows Firewall permanently and installing Zone Alarm
instead - which did a fine job on my previous computer which had Windows
98SE. ZA never interfered with my Web-publishing in the way that
Windows Firewall seems to do in the way described here re my present
computer (albeit, as you say, that it's an incoming pkt that seems to be
the problem).

- Ken from Oz (I see that there's another Ken posting here, having
trouble with his bookmarks!)

 

[DL]

I've run ZA on both win2k and winxp, had no problems