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Title: websites
Post by: miked on June 23, 2001, 08:50:29 AM

Hello,

If you do not have a domain name can you still access the a webpage on the e-smith server via an IP.

I have created an ibay and given the world access but can only access it if I use the internal ip of the server.

eg: 192.168.100.1/home works fine but
203.164.*.*/home does not??

An ideas?

TIA
miked

Title: Re: websites
Post by: Lloyd Keen on June 23, 2001, 03:45:21 PM

In short NO. When you type a URL into your browser, say http://www.mikedman.com your computer asks the .com Name Server who owns mikedman.com and what is the IP address of the webserver (or FTP etc). In order for you to view a webpage on your webserver externally you have to be the owner of that Domain or refer to it using the external IP address ie http://203.164.*.* Hope that makes sense.

Title: Re: websites
Post by: Paul on June 26, 2001, 08:18:51 AM

miked wrote:

>
> I have created an ibay and given the world access but can
> only access it if I use the internal ip of the server.
>
> eg: 192.168.100.203.164.*.*/home1/home works fine but
> 203.164.*.*/home does not??

Are you trying 203.164.*.*/home from your local network, or from a remote host?  Does 203.164.*.*/home/ work?

Paul

Title: Re: websites
Post by: steve on June 26, 2001, 08:31:11 AM

when i setup esmith it puts a www in front of my static ip.  ie, i have no domain name, but a static iP.  How do i get that static to be my primary website.  right now, esmith is putting a www in front of it. http://www.34.34.2.143    ????

Title: Re: websites
Post by: miked on June 26, 2001, 02:55:23 PM

Thanks Guys,

Yes the 203.164.*.* works fine from the internet. It ended up been a DNS issue.

thanks for your help

miked