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Re: Running a Web Server on a LAN

From: Ian Batterbee <ian.batterbee_at_aut.ac.nz>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:00:32 +1300
Message-ID: <41E1EFD0.4070909@aut.ac.nz>

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>
>Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:40:56 +1300
>From: Lucas Young <lucas@digitalus.co.nz>
>
>Hi
>I just bought and setup an XH1169 Router (with a 5 port switch) for our LAN
>and it's working fine, except for the issue mentioned on the DSE support
>page - one of our networked PCs runs a Web Server (IIS) so we can test
>client websites locally.
>Is there a way to configure the XH1169 to browse that web server from within
>the network?
>
Firstly, this isn't an ADSL issue, and I exepct to see the usual flamers
on the list pointing this out

However, in the interests of being helpful, have you tried just pointing
your browser at the IP address of the machine running IIS ?

ie, if the machine is using 192.168.0.1, then point the browser at
http://192.168.0.1/

if you need to have DNS work in order to make virtual sites on the same
IIS server accessible, you'll need to kludge entries into your hosts
file (on the machine running the browser) - on windows 2000, this is
located in c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts... on XP, change winnt to
windows.

For example:

192.168.0.1 www.sillydomain.com
192.168.0.1 www.clientsdomain.com

then you'll be able to go http://www.clientsdomain.com/ and so
on...just remember to take them out when you're done testing.

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