Networking with Microsoft Windows Vista- P10

Networking with Microsoft Windows Vista- P10: A better solution is to increase the number of computers available. Now thatmachines with fast processors, ample RAM, and massive hard disk space canbe had for just a few hundred dollars, a multiple-machine setup is an affordableproposition for most homes.
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Networking with Microsoft Windows Vista- P10 434 Networking with Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Accessing Your Website Although there’s not much to see, the default website is ready for action as soon as you install IIS. To access the website from the computer running IIS, you can enter any of the following addresses into your web browser: http://127.0.0.1/ http://localhost/ http://IPAddress/ (replace IPAddress with the IP address of the computer) http://ComputerName/ (replace ComputerName with name of the computer) Figure 19.1 shows the home page of the default IIS website that appears. 19 FIGURE 19.1 The default IIS 7 website home page. Creating a Windows Firewall Exception for the Web Server As things stand now, your new website will only work properly when you access it using a web browser running on the Windows Vista PC that’s run- ning IIS. If you try to access the site on any other computer (or from a loca- tion outside your network), you get an error message. The problem is that the Windows Firewall on the Vista machine hasn’t been configured to allow data traffic through the World Wide Web Services used by IIS. For your website to work from any remote location, you need to set up an exception for the World Wide Web Services in Windows Firewall. Here are the steps to follow:Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. CHAPTER 19 Setting Up a Website 435 1. Select Start, Control Panel to open the Control Panel window. 2. Under Security, click the Allow a note HTTP is short for Hypertext Transport Protocol, the protocol used to Program through Windows Firewall exchange information on the link. The User Account Control dia- World Wide Web. log box appears. 3. Enter your UAC credentials. The Windows Firewall Settings dialog box appears. 4. Select the Exceptions tab. 5. Click to activate the check box beside the World Wide Web Services (HTTP) item, as shown in Figure 19.2. 19 FIGURE 19.2 You need to configure Windows Firewall on the Vista machine to allow traffic over the World Wide Web Services. 6. Click OK to put the exception into effect.Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. 436 Networking with Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Accessing Your Website Over the Network With the Windows Firewall exception for the World Wide Web Services in place, you can now access the website from any remote computer on your net- work. You do this by launching your web browser and entering one of the fol- lowing addresses: http://IPAddress/ (replace IPAddress with the IP address of the IIS computer) http://ComputerName/ (replace ComputerName with name of the IIS computer) Accessing Your Website Over the Internet People on your network can now access your website, but you may also want to allow website access to people from outside your network (that is, from the Internet). To set this up, you must do three things: 1. Set up the Vista machine that’s hosting the website with a permanent IP address, as described in Chapter 6, “Managing Network Connections.” ➔ See “Setting Up a Static IP Address,” p. 145. 2. Configure your router to forward TCP traffic on port 80 to the IP address you specified in step 1. See Chapter 16, “Making Remot ...