Web & FTP Server Setup and access

I am setting up a simple website and FTP server configuration on Windows
2003 Server, and I have set them up. However, I cannot get them to do
anything.

When I try to test the website, I cannot access it with the machine's OWN
internal IP Address (open browser, type in IP, open FTP client, type in
internal ip) I get nothing ("this web page cannot be found...")

Also, although I have forwarded all the relevant ports in the gateway router
to the webserver on the internal network, when I type in the external
address, I just get the configuration screen on the gateway router...

IIS seems to be up and operating... (the website used to work a month ago,
but I took it down to add in a VOIP gateway router, and just recently put it
up again.

What can I check? Why isn't the webserver or ftp server responding to the
requests.... Thanks in advance.

<snippage>
> What can I check?
> Why isn't the webserver or ftp
> server responding to the
> requests....

Well, can't say right now why the
ftp (or web) aren't responding to
the requests; but you may check
that they're at least listening on
the needed ports; to do this, on
the server machine open up a
command prompt then enter
the following command:

netstat -an|find "LISTEN"

now, check if the list shows ports
21 (ftp) and 80 (http) in listening
state, and also note the address
to which such port are bound

Let me/us (the NG) know please

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> When I try to test the website, I cannot access it with the machine's
> OWN internal IP Address (open browser, type in IP, open FTP client,
> type in internal ip) I get nothing ("this web page cannot be
> found...")

Can you access it from the machine it's on with
http://localhost/whatever?

> Also, although I have forwarded all the relevant ports in the gateway
> router to the webserver on the internal network, when I type in the
> external address, I just get the configuration screen on the gateway
> router...

Maybe it gets confused routing the external IP address back in to the
local network? Can it be accessed from outside your network?

> IIS seems to be up and operating... (the website used to work a month
> ago, but I took it down to add in a VOIP gateway router, and just
> recently put it up again.
>
> What can I check? Why isn't the webserver or ftp server responding to
> the requests.... Thanks in advance.

Do the logs in %windir%\system32\logfiles give any hints? If it says
"Page could not be found" then that's the reponse from IIS - it'll be a
404 response in the current file in the W3SVC1 folder.

Andrew

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:10:14 GMT, "Allan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I am setting up a simple website and FTP server configuration on Windows
>2003 Server, and I have set them up. However, I cannot get them to do
>anything.
>
>When I try to test the website, I cannot access it with the machine's OWN
>internal IP Address (open browser, type in IP, open FTP client, type in
>internal ip) I get nothing ("this web page cannot be found...")
>
>Also, although I have forwarded all the relevant ports in the gateway router
>to the webserver on the internal network, when I type in the external
>address, I just get the configuration screen on the gateway router...
>
>IIS seems to be up and operating... (the website used to work a month ago,
>but I took it down to add in a VOIP gateway router, and just recently put it
>up again.
>
>What can I check? Why isn't the webserver or ftp server responding to the
>requests.... Thanks in advance.

Three groups posted to and you missed the entire IIS hierarchy. Try
reposting to microsoft.public.inetserver.iis.

Obvious possibilities:

Firewall blocking port 80
Default web site stopped
Service not running
ASP not configured as a web service
Browser trying to use proxy
Site not set to answer on all IP's

When you do post to the IIS group, try a Hello World HTML file and
post the full, exact error message you receive. Also see:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...s/default.mspx
http://support.microsoft.com/ph/2097

Jeff

Opening the ports 21 and 80 on your router are not going to help. Here is
what I guess happens. You open this ports for traffic that comes from
outside of the router. When you put in your IP address the router realizes
that this is targeting itself and therefore the request never goes out and
as a consequence never comes in. Instead it pulls up the configuration page
of itself. It seems to me the only way to test it is if you are on the other
side of the router either by using a computer at work/home or buy using a
second router. You can test the webpage on your server machine by typing in
//localhost/ or //localhost/nameOfPage.

If my assumption above is wrong then I would be interested on how you did
solve the problem.

Regards,
Rob


"Allan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am setting up a simple website and FTP server configuration on Windows
> 2003 Server, and I have set them up. However, I cannot get them to do
> anything.
>
> When I try to test the website, I cannot access it with the machine's OWN
> internal IP Address (open browser, type in IP, open FTP client, type in
> internal ip) I get nothing ("this web page cannot be found...")
>
> Also, although I have forwarded all the relevant ports in the gateway
router
> to the webserver on the internal network, when I type in the external
> address, I just get the configuration screen on the gateway router...
>
> IIS seems to be up and operating... (the website used to work a month ago,
> but I took it down to add in a VOIP gateway router, and just recently put
it
> up again.
>
> What can I check? Why isn't the webserver or ftp server responding to the
> requests.... Thanks in advance.
>
>