Bob Chiodini wrote:
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 16:58 -0500, Steve Brown wrote:
After learning here on the list that my ISP, Optimum Online, blocks
residential customers from running web servers using port 80, I set up
httpd.conf and my firewall to run my site using port 85. It works
fine. Next, I registered a domain with my daughter's name: miabrown.com
through 1and1.com. I set up the account so that requests for
miabrown.com are forwarded to my server (dynamic IP address, port 85).
Apparently, at work, they block sites that use a port number other than
80. In my brower at work, I see the IP address. What do I need to do
on my server so that it shows the domain name instead of the IP address?
Steve,
I'm not an HTML guru (IANAHG, hmm..., nah). It looks like the agency
that is forwarding the HTTP requests to your dynamic IP is putting the
address in the HTML. If you run ethereal while surfing to miabrown.com
you'll see that in the first response packet that the IP address and not
the name is returned.
I would guess that using this type of redirection will always result in
your work browser displaying the IP. BTW: I get miabrown.com here.
Both in Linux (firefox) and windows (IE).
Which IP address is your work browser displaying, 69.113.88.148
(ool-45715894.dyn.optonline.net) or 217.160.226.79 (miabrown.com)?
69.113.88.148
I
get something completely different if I access http://69.113.88.148:85.
Forwarding is actually to http://69.113.88.148:85/mia. Perhaps I should
redirect to the /mia subdirectory. Now my firewall forwards port 443 to
85, so I can access the site from work using
http://69.113.88.148:443/mia/ (for some reason, if I don't use a
trailing forward slash, it times out).
BTW: The year should be 2005 for the snow pictures. Man am I glad I
live in Florida:-) We don't have to shovel hurricanes.
Thank. I'll make the correction. We just missed the hurricanes since
we visited Florida last June. I hope to go to back in March!
