problem getting to sites from internet

I brought up a new server with the latest WSS installed. I cannot get
the site to come up from the internet. Here's what I have tried so
far:

To be sure IIS was working and to test connectivity I set up
http://test28.leeallen.org with a simple htm page. This site serves
up to any computer including my PDA and cell phone. This proved that
the network is connected and that IIS seems to be working ok.

Next I configured the sharepoint site to accept all port 80 requests
as well as the specific url of http://moss.leeallen.org, I also
enabled anonymous access for the site in both IIS and Sharepoint. This
site will serve up on the server machine so WSS is working, But from
any internet machine you get an "Internet Explorer cannot display the
webpage." error message.

I'm stumped. Is there some IIS or WSS security property that prevents
the site from displaying from other machines.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I don't know where to look
next.

Thanks

Mike
Wed Jan 09 23:33:59 CST 2008

Check that the Windows Firewall (in Services) is not active. (Turn it
off and Disable it).

That has caused this problem for me in both R2 and Win 2003 Server after
SP2.

Note: Please don't post questions to several newsgroups. .general is for
instance only for questions that don't fit in any other newsgroup - not
for duplicates.

Only one of .windowsservices or .setup_and_administration would be
suitable alternatives for this question (and would have got the same
response and just as quickly)

Mike Walsh
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Lee Allen wrote:
> I brought up a new server with the latest WSS installed. I cannot get
> the site to come up from the internet. Here's what I have tried so
> far:
>
> To be sure IIS was working and to test connectivity I set up
> http://test28.leeallen.org with a simple htm page. This site serves
> up to any computer including my PDA and cell phone. This proved that
> the network is connected and that IIS seems to be working ok.
>
> Next I configured the sharepoint site to accept all port 80 requests
> as well as the specific url of http://moss.leeallen.org, I also
> enabled anonymous access for the site in both IIS and Sharepoint. This
> site will serve up on the server machine so WSS is working, But from
> any internet machine you get an "Internet Explorer cannot display the
> webpage." error message.
>
> I'm stumped. Is there some IIS or WSS security property that prevents
> the site from displaying from other machines.
>
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I don't know where to look
> next.
>
> Thanks

Lee
Wed Jan 09 23:42:11 CST 2008

I found my answer and fixed the problem and wanted to share. The
problem was that I needed to set up an alternate mapping to the
Internet zone for the URL. I found this document on technet that led
me to the solution:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/c8ccffce-5162-46af-a3ef-1d7914e8efee1033.mspx?mfr=true

Thanks

Mike
Thu Jan 10 00:01:42 CST 2008

AAM is always something that comes to mind. The reason I didn't suggest
it is that typically you can access the site itself without setting an
AAM value for Internet, but you can't then access internal links
(because those are still pointing at <servername> if you don't have AAM set.

As my reading was that you couldn't access the site at all, I didn't
mention AAM in my reply.

(I'm still wondering as to how it clears up the problem of initial
access ....)

Thanks for the quick feedback.

Mike Walsh

Lee Allen wrote:
> I found my answer and fixed the problem and wanted to share. The
> problem was that I needed to set up an alternate mapping to the
> Internet zone for the URL. I found this document on technet that led
> me to the solution:
>
> http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/c8ccffce-5162-46af-a3ef-1d7914e8efee1033.mspx?mfr=true
>
> Thanks