I am setting up a web page on my home PC running windows xp pro and the built-in IIS server or apache http server. I have to use port 8080 (http alternate) as my ISP told me that they block port 80. I have the web server listening on 8080 and router setup for port forwarding to my PC on 8080 as well. Everyone can see my pages with no problem from the outside (Internet or WAN) but when I type in my web site address from the same computer (web server) I am unable to view my web site. The error I get is "cannot find server"  "The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings."\nI can get to my site if I use      http://localhost:8080   but I want to be able to use my internet name... Thanks in advance..
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What you need to do is open the file "C: &#92; WINDOWS &#92; system32 &#92; drivers &#92; etc &#92; hosts" in Notepad or any editor.  You will see the line:\n\n127.0.0.1       localhost\n\nUnderneath this, add another entry with 127.0.0.1 and your mydomain.xxx.  Use the localhost one as a guide.  If http://localhost:8080 works, and you want http://xyz:8080 to work, add the line:\n\n127.0.0.1       xyz\n\nOnce you do this, it should work.\n\n\n(sorry I had to put spaces in the path, it didn't look right otherwise because it changed the &#92; to the hex value)
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It depends on how the server administrators have configured the service I'm afraid :)\n\nYou could use the following tip to make life a bit easier:\n\nWith the Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers, pressing the Control and Enter keys simultaneously will prefix 'www' and suffix '.com' to whatever has been typed into the address box.\n\nHope this helps.
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First, one needs to understand that every computer connected to the Internet has an IP address.  Some are private (i.e. they only work within a private network.) Others are public.  In case it's not obvious, a Web site would use a public IP address.\n\nThe domain name that you are used to using to access most Web sites is actually a mask of sorts.  The Domain Name System - as it is known - translates the more user friendly domain name into an IP address by looking up the name in one of the thousands (if not millions) of domain name servers around the world.  Based on a complex series of relationships between the servers, a domain name for a server hosted accross the world can be retrieved in fractions of a second.\n\nSo when you type in a domain in your browser, your browser sends a lookup request to the domain name server provided by your company or ISP.  This domain name server returns the IP address for that domain to your browser so that it can pass the request on to the Web site's server.\n\nSo to get to your question, "IP websites" work because the browser is directly addressing the server without the overhead of looking up the domain name.
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You need to open port 21 on your computer. If you're behind a firewall or a router, make sure to forward port 21 to your comp. Then download a program that will be the "FTP Server" for you. There's a couple freeware programs out there that can do this, here's a few:\n\nMicrosoft IIS (Internet Information Services) (if you have Windows XP, you already have this, it's kind of a pain to install/use though. NOT recommended).\nFileZilla: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21558 - Make sure to download FileZilla SERVER. This program runs great, I've used it for quite a while.\n\nThere are a few others, but I haven't used them, so I can't recommend them to you with 100% confidence. I highest suggest FileZilla Server. Have fun!\n\nOh, if you have a dynamic IP (your IP always changes), then you'll want to get an account at www.no-ip.com. That way you can forward to a name instead of your IP.
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When you are NAT'ing using a single IP addresas, the only thing you can do is port-forward. For example, lets say your external IP is 10.10.10.1 (let's pretend it's valid eventhough it's not), you may be able to have your router do PAT (port-address-translation) or port-forwarding by telling it to send all incoming port-80 sessions to a specific web-server. \n\nThe problem is that you have multiple web-servers, so you can only do port forwarding for one machine on port 80. Another option is to run one of the sites on port 8080 (or something different than 80), and do port forwarding on that particlar port.\n\nUltimately, here are you're two hurdles:\n\n(1) Your router/switch may not support PAT.\n(2) If it does, you only have 1 public external IP address and two distinct internal servers behind it.\n\nYour realy solution is to make sure that you do PAT (or get hardware that will support it), and to get a 2nd IP from your ISP.
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I would check to make sure that you have a good DNS setting on your machine.\n\nIf you're on a home network and the pc is set up for DHCP then the pc gets the DNS info from the router and the router gets it from the ISP.  you can add a second DNS lookup to the network config that will go to a 3rd party DNS server for name resolution.\n\nDo a search on DNS servers and there are a bunch of them listed out there that are public.  Then you just add that to your network settings under the DNS tab.  You will still use the DHCP DNS settings if it can resolve properly, but if you attempt to hit a site that the primary DNS doesnt know about then it will try to use the external DNS.
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chk whether the port 8080 is used by any other service or web server like apache. change the port number to 8081 or someother number and chk. Make sure to start the JBOSS server is running. if not , start  run.sh program. \n\nU can get more stuff abt troubleshooting JBOSSfrom  the site www.spikesource.com/docs/cs_1.6.0-win32/doc/jboss/jboss_troubleshoot.html\n\nGeneral Installation\nwww.spikesource.com/docs/cs_1.4-linux/doc/jboss/jboss_quickstartguide.html\n\nTry ur Best. U could get in 2 or 3 attempts to get JBOSS Work\n\nWith Regards\nVenkatesh . A
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Try start run type "cmd" enter, black window up and type "ping www.yahoo.com" (if yahoo is the site you cant reach) enter, if time < 100ms, and no request time out you should be fine.\nTry other time of the day,\nTry the connection with another machine\nCheck the router setting \nCheck if firewall blocking access
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Ya. i m facing a problem i know that's very common and petty stil is a problem. \nWhile running a ASP file browser displays an error : HTTP 500 Internal server error. How to resolve?\nearlier i have worked with PWS but now I m using Windows XP and IIS. the default test page is displayed from the local host but if i create an ASP file and save it in the same drive i.e. C:/Inetpub/WWWroot/ it is not accessible. there is no errors in the script. also tested by saving the file in other virtual directories
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most linksys routers support DHCP, a mechanism by wich the routers assigns a different IP address to each computer behind it, so I guess you should activate it.\nMaybe Shogunly answer is true; if your don't know how to configure your router as a DHCP server, try changing the last digit of the IP address configured in your host until the message dissapears. Remember that the numbers separated by dots in the whole address cannot be greater that 255 (by now).\n\nYou can change the IP address in Windows XP as follows:\n1. First, click the icon in your system tray. It will open a status window.\n2. In the general tab, click on properties. It will open another window.\n3. In the general tab there's a list. Scroll down till you find "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)"\n4. Select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" and click Properties. This will open another window.\n5. Here you can choose to do one of two things:\n5.1 Configure you PC to request an IP address to your router vi DHCP\n5.2 Change the IP statically configured.\n\n5.1 Configure your PC for DHCP:\n1. Click on the "Get an IP address automatically" selector (or something alike, sorry, my reference WinXP is in Spanish).\n2. Click on the "Get the address of the DNS server automatically" selector.\n3. Click OK. Now your PC is ready to issue a DHCP query to the router and, if the router is configured with the defaults, your PC will get configured automatically with an unique IP address. This procedure is most likely to work.\n\n5.2 Configure your PC with a different IP address:\n1. Click on "Use the following IP address" (if this option was already selected, jump to step 2)\n2. In the field "IP Address" change the last number to anyone between 2 and 254.\n3. Change repeatedly until the error disappears.
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First; try to disable proxy servers: \n1. Launch Internet Explorer \n2. From the menu bar, select Tools and click Internet (the Internet options dialog box appears) \n3. Click the Connections Tab at the top of the dialog box \n4. Click LAN Settings near the bottom right of the box (the LAN Settings dialog box appears) \n5. Ensure that, "Automatically detect settings", "Use automatic configuration script" and "Use a proxy server", are all Unchecked. \n6. Try to access the secure site again.
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the server that u are on is belonging to an american oil company,dont try to hack it because u will get in troubles\n\nnow if u insist,try portforwarding maybe u will be able to see the pages that u want
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In your browser's address bar type ftp://canadathebest.com (notice no http:// and no www). You can also open the command line and type ftp canadathebest.com (notice no ://) but I tried and the FTP does not respond on that site-- make sure it is installed, and that the service or daemon is running and everything is configured properly. By default most servers have this turned off.  You also need ports 21 open on your firewall, or you need to specify the port if you want to use a different port (more secure that way) as ftp://canadathebest.com:8021 or whatever port you select.
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There is a web hosting server, which has got different virual folders setup as websites...more like a schema...those folders are locked with a referenced IP address. So when you type in the website address...DNS reosloves the name to the IP address...and gives you the website to  your browser!\n\nHelps??
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It is hosted on different servers, we call them web-hosts.\nThese servers have 24x7 connection to the internet..so that websites can be accessed at all times. This is different from our home where we connect to the internet only when required. All the content of internet is distributed on diff servers..not on a single machine.\n\nwebsite addresses like yahoo.com and google.com are mapped using the DNS concept. read more about DNS here\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS
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You will need to do the following to host your website from your home:\n\n1. Get a Broadband connection with Public Static IP address. (Static IP given by ISP is not enough. It must be public IP)\n\n2. Setup a Web server. Either IIS on Windows or Apache on Linux.\n\n3. Host your website by setting up appropriate Virtual directory.\n\n4. Use a Service like Dynamic DNS to make sure your Domain name resolves to your Static IP (Provided by your ISP)\n\nAll the best. Let me know when its done so i can take a look as well!
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Hi,\n\n      To change the proxy settings, please open Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), now from the menu, go to tools and click Internet options, now go to connection tab. You will find a command button that reads LAN Settings, there will be another window that reads "Local Area Network (LAN) Settings", now you can change your proxy settings from there under "Proxy Server". \n\n    If you uncheck the check box that says: "Use a proxy server for your LAN (These settings will not apply to dial-up or VPN Connections).", then your proxy will be disabled.\n\n(I have assumed that you are using Win XP)\n\nIf you have any other question, please feel free to contact me, or if I have given any wrong or not appropriate information, please feel free to post a feedback at my email address, that will really help me.\n\nThanks and regards,\nNirmal