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I am hosting my website at home on Windows 7.

  1. I configured port forwarding for http
  2. I configured the firewall enabling http
  3. the IIS is running, the localhost is working

I configured the domain to my server, but I cannot access my system from outside. What am I missing.

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Are you certain your ISP is not firewalling you? Many ISPs disallow you to host services. They setup firewall rules to prevent you from doing this. – Zoredache Oct 2 '10 at 8:04
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what I missed was setting static ip and configuring the DNS for th windows 7 machine

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Have you tried accessing it via your external IP addresss rather than the domainname ? You can find your IP address here.

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very good point, id ont know how i forgot to do this, but when accessing it, it asking me username and password to login to my modem – user1111111 Oct 2 '10 at 8:46
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Then you need to get your modem to correctly forward the http port on your external IP address to your server. – Iain♦ Oct 2 '10 at 8:55
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