[Xitami] Xitami and dns2go

[Robert J. DeMartini]

Thanks Jay! I'm completely impressed with your detailed explanation of how
to handle this. I'm very grateful and am keeping this around for the
future...

Here's the kicker. I knew port 80 wasn't blocked from my ISP (however I know
several people who are having the port 80 problems and now I can help them
out), so I went to try this anyway hoping for the best. I noticed in my
settings that there were two NIC cards listed. For some reason my system
inherited settings from a previous system's when changing over the hard
drive. I simply deleted the unused NIC card and voila! server came right up.

I must have looked at my network settings a million times, which explains
why I kept looking over it.

Thanks again for focusing me in a different direction that eventually shed
the light on my own stupidity.

-Rob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Control-Freak" <Control-Freak@cfl.rr.com>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Xitami] Xitami and dns2go


> I use dns2go and xitami.  Most residential ISPs block port 80, so no one
> outside your local ISP "hub" of computers can access your domain on a
> standard HTTP port.
>
> If you can connect to your domain using your domain name locally, then
your
> domain provider points to Deerfield's servers, so thats all fine.  But if
> you can't get in from "outside", you need to set your portbase to a value
of
> like 5920 to get Xitami to work on port 6000 (5920+80) (or whatever works
> with your ISP - might take some experimentation).
>
> In the dns2go client, you need to goto the service settings tab, and on
the
> "apply the following settings when I am:" pull-down, select online.
>
> Then check the box next to "Redirect web requests (with a www prefix)"
>
> then check the radio button that says "To my current IP address on port"
and
> then  put in your portbase value + 80 (6000 as shown above).  If you need
to
> know how to get your FTP port back down to 20, read the defaults.cfg file
> carefully.  It works similar to portbase - just use a negative number to
> bring it back down.
>
> Restart Xitami
>
> Disconnect then reconnect the dns2go client.
>
> Now everyone should hopefully be able to connect to your ISP using
> www.yourdomain.com.  But, remember that the www. is now crucial in order
for
> dns2go to know to portforward the HTTP request.  http://yourdomain.com
will
> result in an attempt to connect at port 80, so it will not work.
>
> Hope that helps.  You'll need to do a little more if you still need
Xitami's
> FTP services.  Maybe not -  FTP might work fine at port 5940 on your ISP.
>
> P.S. For FTP, use ftp://yourdomain.com  not ftp://www.yourdomain.com or
> dns2go will try and portforward the FTP request.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> - Jay Aldrich
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert J. DeMartini" <robdemartini@mindspring.com>
> To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 7:54 PM
> Subject: [Xitami] Xitami and dns2go
>
>
> > I'm currently using dns2go to route my dynamic ip into a single domain
> name
> > (i.e. the IP address changes but the domain name insures the site is
> found).
> > Currently I cannot get Xitami to work. I can see the site on my local
> system
> > but the outside world cannot get in. I was hoping someone else had a
> similar
> > circumstance and could offer a solution.
> >
> > Right now I'm using a program called, "TheServer" and it works fine, but
> > lacks any type of server depth. The interesting part is that server lets
> > traffic in no problem... so I know it's possible it's just probably a
> > setting I am overlooking.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
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