IIS and ASP.NET2

rodmcleay · November 3rd, 2004, 02:14 AM

I am having trouble with setting up IIS on my machine at home.
Or at least I think it is IIS giving me the trouble.

I have created a demo project with VS2005 beta and published it to a virtual directory in wwwroot.
I have redirected all incoming requests to the site.
All seems to be ok locally.
I can address the browser to the local machine IP and the website appears.
But when accessed from outside a Connection timeout
error occurs

Giving the detiails:

Code:

Background:
The gateway could not receive a timely response from the Web site you are trying to access. This might indicate that the network is congested, or that the Web site is experiencing technical difficulties.

I have a static IP and domain name, both of which ping in good time.
I have redirected my port 80 to the web server (In fact the only machine at my house) through the ADSL router.
I have IIS 5.1 Running on my XP Prof Machine

I had previously had a ASP.NET app running on the machine which was visable to the "outside world".

My guess is that it is something to do with permissions but I do not know much about these aspects of .NET and IIS.

Can anyone make some suggestions as to how to find my error, I have not had much luck looking for resources on this.

Ideally what I am looking for is a checklist of things I need to have set on IIS to get a ASP.NET2 site running correctly.

Any Advise would be appreciated.

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stu9820 · November 3rd, 2004, 09:13 AM

Is SP2 on your machine? Have you configured its firewall?

Are you accessing the Router's IP or your IP given to you by your ISP?

rodmcleay · November 3rd, 2004, 09:23 PM

Stu,
You got it in one,
SP2 XP Firewall needed to allow port 80 through.
I installed the beta about the same time as SP2.
I have never used the Windows Firewall had not thought about it at all.

Instead I have spent the last two weeks wrestling with IIS of an evening.
I must have tried every configuraiton possible in IIS.

Thanks Heaps

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They say, best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
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