server help

[npgames]

so iv been messing with my server again and im curious if i need to mess with this to get it online45503

[Templarian]

You mean forwarding a port?

Your may have to if people can't see it from outside your network.

An no you shouldn't have to mess with what your picture shows.

[npgames]

damn thought i found the problem

[Templarian]

I find it kind of funny you can't get this to work... I mean what I did it I just forwarded the port and it worked.

Maybe your forwarding the wrong port/to the wrong address.

[npgames]

lol me too. but im pretty sure im doing it right

i have the quest dsl modem dmzing the router and the router dmzing the server, and im sure i turned off all the firewalls.

a wierd thing with the connection tho, i cant connect the modem directly into a computer and im also using a xbox ethernet cable, but im not sure either of these things would affect the server

[Theros]

Er, routers aren't my thing...but I have always gone by the rule...don't mess with the DMZ settings... I don't even know what that means, but whenever they get touched my router goes haywire. And even when I was hosting my own web server at home I didn't need to modify them either so that can't be your problem (I was using the XMM (or something similar) package that had Apache and other stuff).

[npgames]

well port forwarding isnt working so i figured dmz might work

[Jeff Wheeler]

DMZ is the same as port forwarding everything from 1 to ∞ … it is just an insecure way to port-forward port 80 (in addition to everything else). Don’t use it, except to debug.

The DNS servers allow your computer to translate a name, like ‘google.com’, to an IP address, like ‘64.233.167.99’ (Google English’s IP). It does not affect your server setup, but can affect your general browsing experience. I recommend switching these to ‘208.67.222.222’ and ‘208.67.220.220’ (OpenDNS (http://opendns.com)).

[npgames]

so ill switch back to forwarding, but i still have no idea how to get it online

[Theros]

It may just be that your ISP blocks the web server ports.... Heh, when I was doing it I had to switch around the ports to bypass my ISP's blocks. Even then, it's still against their terms and conditions...so that's one of the reasons why I ended up buying hosting.