Accessing a web server behind a router

Hello

Please could someone explain how I go about accessing a web server
behing a router as it's got me a little puzzled.

Scenario:
At home I have three computers all connected to a router. I wish to
host my very low traffic website from one of the computers running
IIS. Obviously I know to point my domain name to the static IP address
of my router, but how do I configure the router to pass on those
incoming requests to the correct computer?

Answers as simple as possible, please!

Thanks

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Pooley

You will need to setup the router to forward any requests on port 80 to the
IP of the computer with the web server running. This is presuming you will
just be using the standard port (80)

"Pooley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> Please could someone explain how I go about accessing a web server
> behing a router as it's got me a little puzzled.
>
> Scenario:
> At home I have three computers all connected to a router. I wish to
> host my very low traffic website from one of the computers running
> IIS. Obviously I know to point my domain name to the static IP address
> of my router, but how do I configure the router to pass on those
> incoming requests to the correct computer?
>
> Answers as simple as possible, please!
>
> Thanks
>
> ---
> Pooley

Pooley wrote:

> Scenario:
> At home I have three computers all connected to a router. I wish to
> host my very low traffic website from one of the computers running
> IIS. Obviously I know to point my domain name to the static IP address
> of my router, but how do I configure the router to pass on those
> incoming requests to the correct computer?

As Rob said, it's just a matter of forwarding port 80 to the host
running the web server. If you look here, there is a screenshot on how
this is done on a Linksys router.

<http://www.networklab.co.uk/cmodem/linksys.html>

As you are running IIS, please, please, please install IISLockd on it.
This will turn off a number vulnerable web 'features' that are installed
by default with IIS and also install a proggie called URLScan, which
will block malformed URLs hitting your server.

IIslockd can be found here:

<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=DDE9EFC0-BB30-47EB-9A61-FD755D23CDEC>