Viewing websites, held on my desktop, remotely; using modem router

[Guest]

Hello everyone

I have a desktop wired by an ethernet connection to a BTVOYAGER 2100 ADSL
modem router.
My desktop computer is running Windows XP Pro SP2.

I want to view the websites I have developed remotely; the websites are
running through a Coldfusion MX 6.1 Server, running on my desktop computer.

I have set up remote access and made it an exception in my Windows firewall.

I have set my wwwroot folder which holds all of my websites as the default
web folder.

I have set up a domain, www.cdesigndns.dyndns.org, to handle dynamic IP
address issues.

When I type in the above web address into my browser, it takes me to the
BTVOYAGER 2100 status page; I had expected it to take me to the directory of
my wwwroot folder.

Can anyone help me set this connection up properly?

Thanks...

Charlie

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

If you want to access your web site from the ColdFusion server or some other
machine on your internal network, you must use the internal IP address of
the server, NOT the public IP that www.cdesigndns.dyndns.org resolves to.

If you want to access your web site from a machine connected to the Internet
outside your network, you must configure the router to map TCP port 80 to
the internal IP address of the server. Your router documentation will tell
you how. The exception you need to configure on the XP firewall is not
remote access - click the Advanced tab/Local Area Connection Settings
button - and check the box for Web Server.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Guest]

Thanks again Doug:

I have done the following; in my router -> vitual servers -> port
forwarding, I have set the IP address to 192.168.1.3 (IP of my desktop, where
Coldfusion Server is housed) and set the 4 port boxes to 80 (External Packet:
start port, end port & Internal Host: start port, end port).

I have changed the Windows Firewall accordingly.

Can I test this from my laptop by using the URL www.cdesigndns.dyndns.org,
or will this not work as I am connected to the internal network aswell?

When I type in the URL to my laptop browser, it takes me to the Router
Homepage, rather than C:\CFusionMX\wwwroot, which is the root of my
Coldfusion Server.

By the way, when I access my Coldfusion Server locally from my desktop I use
the URL: http://localhost:8500

Does this help you any further to answer this problem?

Thanks...

Charlie