redirect from my winXP iis server to another webserver on the network

i have my little home network set up in the moment that a WIN XP is
connecting to the internet and shares it with all other computers on
the network.

on another computer i have set up my website. it's linux and the
web-site is php with mysql.

i do have a static ip address, and when i type it in, i can see my
winXP webserver. how an i redirect it, so it points to the linux web
server.

i have IIS set up on the winXP, and i try to redirect in properties,
but i can't make the connection. sometimes i am asked for a password
when i try to access the web-site over the internet, or it does not
work at all.

any help apretiated.

dimitri

Kristofer
Mon Sep 25 12:38:40 CDT 2006

Can't you use a firewall to forward the request to the linux machine?

What you seem to want to do is not redirect. When you redirect, you
instruct the client to make a new connection to a new server (in your case
it is a new server). Since you only have one public IP, what do you
redirect to so that external clients can get to the linux server? That is
impossible, if the public IP is assigned to the Windows XP machine.

You need something that can forward the request to the linux machine. IIS
is not designed to do this, and it cannot do it out-of-the-box.

What most people do in this situation is to configure their router (which
most people have, with integrated firewall) to forward requests on port 80
to the appropriate webserver.

So you need third-party software/hardware to do this.

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Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert
http://www.gafvert.info/iis/ - IIS Related Info


dimitri wrote:

>i have my little home network set up in the moment that a WIN XP is
>connecting to the internet and shares it with all other computers on
>the network.
>
>on another computer i have set up my website. it's linux and the
>web-site is php with mysql.
>
>i do have a static ip address, and when i type it in, i can see my
>winXP webserver. how an i redirect it, so it points to the linux web
>server.
>
>i have IIS set up on the winXP, and i try to redirect in properties,
>but i can't make the connection. sometimes i am asked for a password
>when i try to access the web-site over the internet, or it does not
>work at all.
>
>any help apretiated.
>
>dimitri

Chad
Mon Sep 25 16:22:12 CDT 2006

dimitri wrote:
> i have my little home network set up in the moment that a WIN XP is
> connecting to the internet and shares it with all other computers on
> the network.
>
> on another computer i have set up my website. it's linux and the
> web-site is php with mysql.
>
> i do have a static ip address, and when i type it in, i can see my
> winXP webserver. how an i redirect it, so it points to the linux web
> server.
>
> i have IIS set up on the winXP, and i try to redirect in properties,
> but i can't make the connection. sometimes i am asked for a password
> when i try to access the web-site over the internet, or it does not
> work at all.
>
> any help apretiated.
>
> dimitri
>
your redirect is probally pointing to the internal IP of the linux box.
This will not work as you will need to redirect to public IP possibly on
different port.