Hi Imar,

I made it through to the end to chapter 19!
Everything went well and works all right when I type "localhost" into the browser bar.
My question was:
I want to retrieve/browse my website from another computer, be it on my local network or from a remote network. typing localhost doesn't work (obviously) nor does the direct subnet address (10.0.0.3)

I am unfamiliar with IIS7 and how to do this and the chapter didn't cover it. I am still searching for the way to do it.
Thanks.

I figured it out.

My windows firewall was blocking other computers, local and remote from accessing IIS on my machine. When I enabled access, I could then type 10.0.0.3 and see my website from another computer, yay!

All I have to do now is figure out how to access the site from another network, not my just my local LAN subnet.

Ok my new question now is if my home network WAN ip is 98.225.45.196 and my subnet ip that IIS hosts my website is on 10.0.0.3,

If I am on a remote network, what do I type into the browser to get my website?

I figured it out again!

Entering in 98.225.45.196 in my browser didn't work. That is actually the WAN ip of my router.
All requests for http to the IIS come in through port 80.
The solution was to enable port forwarding through my router configuration to specifically tell all requests for http on port 80 to go the the subnet ip address 10.0.0.3, and it worked, yay!

no more questions for now.

Can I access this sample site with domain name instead of hard code by ip address. (replace http://192.168.1.12:81/SiteName with www.SiteName.com)?

Also I cannot access it from outside of my home network even though I set up the port forwarding on my router (Actiontec V1000H) and check the port 81 was opened. Anybody can help me out?

Thanks a lot.

I think you have to register the name first, so the NAT (Network Adress Translation) routers know your IP is connected to the specific name.