I have two systems. System one is a Windows 2003 server set up to run web sites. It has a fixed IP on my local network of 192.168.1.8. The second machine is a workstation box DHCP addressed to 192.168.1.2. These boxes are connected to the internet via a Netgrear router. Both boxes can talk to the Internet just fine. The server can talk to the workstation’s shared drive without a problem. The server has its port 80 traffic passed to it via the router port forwarding.
On the server, IIS is set up with a virtual directory under the default web site called ABC, the server host name is XYZ.
On the server I can connect to the ABC web site using “HTTP://localhost/ABC”. This works great. However, if I try to access the site from the workstation using “HTTP://XYZ/ABC” or “HTTP://192.168.1.8/ABC” the browser (MS iexplorer) changes the page to “HTTP://localhost/ABC” and reports it can not open the page.
I tried putting the 192.168.1.8 and ABC in the workstations HOST and LMHOST files as there is no domain controller on the network but the same result occurs.
I tried putting the 192.168.1.8 and XYZ in the workstations HOST and LMHOST files as there is no domain controller on the network but the same result occurs.
I just can’t seem to access the ABC site on the XYZ server box from the workstation.
What am I missing here?
Note :
Server (win2003 server) host name XYZ address 192.168.1.8
Workstation (XP) host name EXP address 192.168.1.2
Router – Netgear address 192.168.1.1 port 80 traffic forwarded to 192.168.1.8