RE: Web app visible from "Outside World"

Geek,

Can your as400 see the internet?

I presume your using the internal IP address in the router?

Have you tried setting up a server on one of the PC's to see if that is
accessible to the outside world. Eg apache or tomcat?

You don't have web servers running on the same port on the PC's and the
as400?

Can you access the web server on the 400 internally?

cheers
Colin.W
 
http://as400blog.blogspot.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Geeky400 [mailto:Geeky400@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 24 May 2005 13:47
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] Web app visible from "Outside World"


Dear All,

We have developed a (very) small application using CGIDEV2 and we would 
like to make it visible from the "Outside World", but unfortunately, it 
is not working too well at the moment. It works very well from within, 
but when we try to access it from outside our network, we get a the 
"Page Cannot be displayed" message.

Since we started on this as a proof of concept, we've kept the setup to 
a bare minimum : 1 iSeries 800 at V5R3, 2 PCs running XP SP2, 1 SMC 
router and 1 ADSL connexion.

We use the DHCP server embedded in the SMC router to allocate IP 
addresses to the PCs (192.168.2.2 & 198.168.2.3). The IP address for the 
400 is 192.168.2.1. NAT is enabled on the router as well as the 
firewall. Everybody can see (ping) everybody and it is working fine.

We've followed SMC's advice in terms of port forwarding and we expected 
to be able to reach the 400 when trying to get to it from the outside 
using the Public IP allocated by our ISP. But it just doesn't work... We 
contacted them again and they checked and validated our setup. We also 
contacted our ISP, just in case they would prevent us to run a 
webserver, but that wasn't the case.

I am not sure what we are missing here, but we just can't get it to 
work. So we would welcome any advice and tips on how to resolve this 
situation...

Many thanks,

G4