Our school accesses the Internet via a Cyber Patrol proxy provided by a third party who is also the school's web host (not our ISP). The proxy is configured at workstation level, not on the router (i.e., it can be turned on and off in Internet Options). The FrontPage web development instructor asked me to set up a local web server so the the students can "Publish" their pages without actually posting them to the external web server. Since FP02 no longer supports web hosting on a client machine (unless you have XP Pro), I configured the school's 2K server as a web host with FP02 extensions. I've mirrored the school's site on the local server. My problem is, even if I check "Bypass proxy for local connections", I still can't reach the local web server with the proxy up (10060 - Connection timed out). On the server itself, I can't even get to the Server Extensions 2002 page with the proxy up. I'd rather not teach the web student how to disable the proxy just so they can publish. I've tried "Bypass proxy for addresses starting with" and creating virtual URL mappings in the workstation's hosts.sam file. I'm hoping the proxy provider can adjust their config to bounce local addresses back to us, but so far they have been unresponsive. Since we don't have a local DNS server (DNS provided by ISP), the address of the web to publish to is unwieldly (http://server_ip:class_web_port_no). To actually view the web, add "/home page/main.htm". Can anyone think of a way to locally bypass the proxy with it up and running without the cooperation of the proxy host and create more friendly local URL's. Thanks