What am I doing wrong ?

[cherylrogers]

I am one that likes to do to learn. Well I am getting a PHD on this project. I run a small business, and want to access my home computer from the office. I know there are other ways, but for many reasons, too long to list, I want to do it this way. I set up the home PC as a web server. I had done the same thing two years ago, with all the same SW & HW, using it as a web server for family pictures, and such. Worked out just great. Now, the only thing that has changed is my home, additional security protection for viruses and such - you know, and probably one or two MS SW upgrades. BTW I use, don't laugh, Windows 98 (I have my reasons)
I made it so my IP address does not change (same as two years ago). I can access the web page from the same computer (SW is functioning). But I cannot access from another computer outside my in-home network. It is probably something to do with security settings, but I don't know my way around enough to know what to look for.

[bopdude]

I'm no in way qualified to answer but to me and my not so logical view, it sounds like it's maybe a firewall / port forwarding thing
Like I said, I'm a n00b so just guessing.

to CF anyway, stick around, the knowledgable one's will awaken soon ......lol

[Aragorn]

Yep, as Bop says it's probably down to a firewall.

Sounds like you have a router between the internet and your 'in-home network'. What make/model of router is it? We can then advise how to open up the firewall for http (port 80) traffic.

However, I would personally be very wary of opening a home PC to the internet with a web server, esp an old OS like 98 with plenty of holes waiting to be exploited. Win98 is NOT a suitable OS for presenting to the internet. If you really want to have a private webserver, a Linux (or even Solaris) server running Apache would be a better bet, but not trivial to configure.

Why not just upload your photos to your NTL homepage?

to CF btw.

[Mr J]

Could be a couple of things.

As bopdude says, it could be a port forwarding problem on your router, make sure your you router is sending the port 80 requests on to the correct machine.

Also, maybe a security account issue with the directory you have the website running from. I've never used win98 for a web server, only 2k, 2k3 o linux. I didn't even know it was possible (can you install IIS on 98?!?) or are you using something like apache?

[cherylrogers]

Using Apache - not using it for pictures. Thanks all. I'll check on the rest of the suggestions.