Access to IIS running within wireless network

Question

I'm making a web site/application and I want to be able to access the website from outside my LAN. I'm serving the site via IIS; When accessing the site from within my LAN everthing looks good, but when I try to reach it through my external IP address (found using http://www.whatismyip.com/) I'm reaching the Router's admin panel.

Please help me ASAP?!

Thank you

Answer 1

You'll need to login to your router and forward port 80 to your computer running IIS.

You may want to consider a shared host, there are several disadvantages to hosting at home, which are discussed a bit here:

• What are some pitfalls of hosting a website from home?

I digress, this should help you out:

• http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/hostmyown.html

Also see:

• Website hosting from home - IIS6
• How hard is it to host from home?