Virgin Media block port 80?
 

Hi there, does anyone know if Virgin Media block port 80, as since moving to them my webserver isn't accessable from the internet?

Any ideas?

Thanks


Ninko

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

Are you using a router? If so you may have to set up port forwarding. If the router is the cause of this, the requests to port 80 are hitting your router and the router is not your webserver. ;)

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

I have a router and a Virgin Media modem and port forwarding is setup for port 80 on the router, but it still doesn't work, the address is www.ninko.homeip.net if you want to try it yourself


Ninko

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

No they don't block port 80.

www.ninko.homeip.net resolves to 208.69.32.130, which is not your Cable modem's IP address, so it's not going to work.

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

I don't understand that, because I get: ninko.homeip.net resolved to 82.45.XXX.XXX, which is my IP address.

I'm wondering, can the Virgin Media modem be stopping it somehow?

Any further ideas?

Thanks


Ninko

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

Firstly, you want to remove your IP adress from your post, not a good idea.

Secondly try ninko.homeip.net without the www in front of it, works from here.

Also a quick look through you website and I can see lots of links that have 'www' infront of them, your either going to have to remove the www, or go into your control panel at dyndns.org and put a tickbox into the wildcard box for your hostname.

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

Thats strange, because before I changed ISP it use to be fine with www. infront of it, any idea why this might have changed because now I really am lost lol.

Thanks


Ninko

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

i'd say it was a quirk with your last ISP personally, your domain name is ninko.homip.net not www.ninko.homeip.net.

No need to be confused, just drop the www, or enable wildcards like i've suggested. The bottom line is that with your previous setup putting www infront of your domain worked, it shouldn't have, but it did.

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

Thanks for that info, I have now enabled wildcards.

Thanks again.

Take care


Ninko

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

I'm getting this page, is that correct?

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

Actually, that's what I get if I try to browse to ninko.homeip.net, if I go to www.ninko.homeip.net I get your proper page.

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

Strange, wonder why that is?


Ninko

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

Dunno, just seemed odd (and like it could potentially be a problem if people can't get to your site). I think some of the links on the 'other' page lead to dubious web sites.....

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

ninko.homeip.net works ninko.homip.net gets you a page of spyware links. Think it was a typo.

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

both ninko.homeip.net and www.ninko.homeip.net. bring you to the same site :/

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

lmao erm... I'm sticking with 'strange'.


Ninko

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

I presume DynDNS were a little slow in updating their DNS records for the domain as the site works with and without 'www.' for me.

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

eth01@Defend:/$ wget -S www.ninko.homeip.net
--17:12:27-- http://www.ninko.homeip.net/
=> `index.html'
Resolving www.ninko.homeip.net... 82.45.35.90
Connecting to www.ninko.homeip.net|82.45.35.90|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:14:05 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.55 (Win32) PHP/5.2.0
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Length: unspecified [text/html]
index.html: Permission denied

Cannot write to `index.html' (Permission denied).
eth01@Defend:/$

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

What site/program did that come from hitmanme?


Ninko

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

wget in Linux... Shows that It was able to connect.

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

Is there anything like that for Windows?


Ninko

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

Or.

CygWin.

:)

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

Ok, thanks hitmanme.

Take care


Ninko

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

I its very simple, if you run a server on the net from your PC. It cannot be connected to by you. LOOPBACK is not allowed. You can use a proxy or get a m8 to look and itl be fine but you CANNOT access your own ip from your own IP. THINK its like mailing yourself a letter, whats the point...I use a proxy... I know because i have a webserverand a multimedia server. Some DYDNS can almost manage this for you though... They manage to not go through the net and just route you internaly to your IIS or whatever... Hope this helps... :angel:

Re: Virgin Media block port 80?
 

Loopback is a feature of the modem/router. Just because you host it yourself it doesn't mean you can't access it. I know this because I run websites and I can access them fine because my router supports loopback.

There is a workaround for this though. Just edit your hosts file and put in your domain to point to localhost :) Not great but it works.