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How do I activate my webserver

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by dindome

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I have a SBS 4.5 server that has a dedicated LAN connection to the internet. I use a domain name sph.ug.edu.gh for my mail server and everything is fine with mails, I set up a trial ftp server for the server and everything worked fine. However, i would like to host my own website. I am not able to do this as anytime I try to access the web via any browser, I receive a page not found error when I enter the address www.sph.ug.edu.gh My server has an IP registered by the domain ug.edu.gh How can Iactivate my server to host my webpages online and be able to have it view by www. I have 2 NICs, one dedicated for LAN ( with private IP), the other the Internet (with registered IP)I have published webpages in my Inetpub folder.
What can I do to activate my server tp become a web server to host my web pages, Please help

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by mckaytech

The first thing to check is that the WWW service is running. You can check this either from Control Panel-Services or from the Microsoft Management Console.

If the service is running, I would try and reach it from the server itself (i.e. open a browser window and use http://127.0.0.1 as the address). If this doesn't work, there is a configuration problem with the IIS service; if it does, then check carefully to see what address and port the Web server is listening on. By default, it should be port 80 on the server's registered IP.

I hope that you'll find that the Web service is not running and you can just start it and have everything come up. If not, please write again with what you do find and we can go from there.

regards!
paul

by dindome

The www service is running, when you enter the ip of the server in the browser on the server, you are able to see the published pages but this is not recognised world wide as it is only local. I would want the pages be a world wide website not only visible to LAN users. When you enter the address in a browser on the server in the format www.ip or www.domainname it gives you a page not found error.

by raffi_

You are, I think, missing a DNS record for your site. Whoever is doing your DNS needs to add a record for your site pointing to your server.

by mckaytech

I just checked the DNS record for ug.edu.gh and here is what I found:

Query: www.sph.ug.edu.gh
Type of Search: ALL - All records
Protocol: UDP
Verbose: Yes
Recursion Desired: Yes

Header:
ID=57606, QR=Query, Opcode=QUERY, RCODE=NAME ERROR
Authoritative Answer=Yes, Truncation=No
Recursion Desired=Yes, Recursion Available=Yes
QDCOUNT=1, ANCOUNT=0, NSCOUNT=1, ARCOUNT=0
Question:
Name=www.sph.ug.edu.gh, QTYPE=ALL, QCLASS=1
Authority Records Section:
- Name=ug.edu.gh Type=SOA, Class=1, TTL=7200 (2 Hours), RDLENGTH=42
Name Server=garnet.ug.edu.gh, Mailbox=hostmaster.ug.edu.gh
Serial=200102090
...

What this indicates is that your server does not yet have a DNS record (or if it does, the information has not yet been replicated across the 'Net). Whoever handles your DNS will have to create an A record for your server and a CNAME alias record for the WWW part.

While that is in the works, you might want to try and see if you can bring upthe Web page by using the IP address of your server. If that works, it's just a matter of getting the DNS records in place.

If you can't reach it at the outside IP address, you probably need to select the IP address for IIS to listen to. You can have it listen to one or the other or both.

paul

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