Re: [WEB400] Web app visible from "Outside World"

[Geeky400 <Geeky400@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Colin,

Thanks for your reply.

The issue was actually that we did not have a default route set-up. We 
followed Charles' advice and it now works a treat.

Thanks,

G4

Colin Williams wrote:

> Geek,
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> Can your as400 see the internet?
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> I presume your using the internal IP address in the router?
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> 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
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> -----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,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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