Cannot access my internal website

[shearder]

Hi All

I have a registered domain. I am hosting on my internal server via adsl. Port forwarding is on and the server is in the DMZ. Now, here is my problem, I can access it from outside my network from a remote system but i cannot access it via my intenal network using my browser.

How do i do this? it keeps telling me page not found but from outside it is fine. I am using a DDNS system which is working fine because i can ping the site and get a response.

Also, I can administer the site if i open the inetpub specific folder and edit in frontpage (for example), however, i can't administer the site with frontpage using the url. What do i need to configure in frontpage to enable remote site admin and design by a client for example.

How do i test functionality if i cannot access the sites from my network?

Please help.

Many thanks in advance!

Sean

[hakre]

hi shearder,

first a quicky:

How do i test functionality if i cannot access the sites from my network?

use a proxy server located on the outside!

to find a better solution, i think you should explain the main prob a little more. some thoughts i had while reading your post:

it keeps telling me page not found but from outside it is fine.

what is it? is it the webserver (the one in your dmz)?

I am using a DDNS system which is working fine because i can ping the site and get a response.

ping'in an ip-addy in your case does not mean that you can ping your webserver, because it is located in the dmz and is only available through port-forwarding. this is not an explanation why you get a 404 but i think it's important to have in mind, that the webserver machine is not the gateway.

-hakre

[shearder]

Thanks for the reply Hakre!

Ok let me try explain this a little more. I had someone access my website from their office (external) and each time I changed the index page they got the immediate updates.

Using DDNS I pinged the domain name using www and without the www and with both i got a reply from the addys with my router's IP address.

so if i am sitting inside my network, i can't access the site with my browser but my fiance can access from outside, which is what I want obviously, but i need to be able to do the same to test functionality from a visitor perspective.

Also, if i have a few friends who want to host a website, or a client, on my servers, what do i need to configure in IIS to enable this and that too i would like to be able to test.

Another question, should this also affect my email if I host an email server? Could that cause me not to be able to connect? In outlook, if i test my email account settings, i get a "fine check" at the first three but then it won't logon to the pop3 server and it won't send a test message.

I appreciate the help!

[hakre]

shearder, it seems that there is no route to the host in the dmz from within your lan. it is from wan, but locally it seems that you can't access anything located in the dmz.

check the routes into the dmz and/or the configuration of your router first. this will affect any service running on a host in the dmz.

-hakre