A user was having problem accessing his website on the network. The site is working fine from the local machine. However, when he tries to access the same site from a computer on the network, it's not working.
The problem and attempted answers can be viewed in this post. You should read the posts in that forum before continuing on this blog so things would make sense when you read the paragraphs below.
Let's logically work through the posts and try to sort out the problems:
1. Setting up a new website, IP address and port number is not necessary as the original site already working on the machine IIS is running from. Since all the computers are on the same network, you should be able to access it by computer name as well.
2. On Win XP, you can actually host more than one sites and running more than one IP on the same computer. But this won't be discussed in this blog. On top of that, it's not even relevant to the problem we are trying to solve.
3. This shouldn't be security issue also since IIS applications typically run on anonymous account by default and permission is granted when the site is set up; unless you specifically make change to it.
The true answer to this lies in Windows XP Pro SP2's built-in Firewall. Open port 80 in Windows Firewall to allow web traffic should solve this issue. If there are other software firewall running, check and open port 80 as well.
Brian Dao
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He's right you know! Although it would have been easier to just put "Open Windows Firewall Port 80" on the original forum.
Instead, you wrote a whole blog :O
take a bow... this guy is on fire!
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