OK. I`ve spent countless hours searching for an answer to this seemingly ridiculouly easy question!! I have a win2k box on a tcp/ip lan behind an smc barricade 4 port router. I have installed apache 2 for windows and have it successfully serving, listening to 192.168.2.14:8000. When I access this address from any pc on my network, i get the web server. Now, when I request http files (by typing in the http://myExternalIP:8000/ in IE address bar), IE seems to hang. I don`t get any error messages, but it just keeps searching (like it`s timeing out or something). The router is set to forward port 8000 to my internal IP. My router has DHCP enabled, but the lease is forever, and I use a static 192.168.2.14 on my pc (this is also the address the router forwards to). I don`t think there`s any other pertinent information about my setup, but if you need more please ask. THANK YOU EVERYONE/ANYONE WHO HELPS!

Is there any DMZ setting in your router? or Maybe you want to update your apache server? I use linksys router and I had no problem with apache server.

I don't think you can view your external IP from your internal network. I would try to go outside your network to like the libary and see if you can get to you network that way.

You might also be conflicting with the internal web management software of the router, if there is any. You will have to configure the router to forward external:8000 to internal:8000. If there is no way of doing this, the you may not be able to do it with this particular router. I would try another port, and make SURE your router is forwarding the port. K

Thanks guys. As it turns out, the router won`t even look at any requests for my external IP if I make them from inside the Lan. Silly me. I checked from a friend`s PC, and found my web server works perfectly. All that wasted time, grrrrr... Anyway, you guys rock!