I have a se567 wireless modem/router from Telus in Canada. Ive got a website hosted on a 3rd party website but decided to put it on my own server. Now unfortunately the bloody router is giving me problems. I enable DMZ for the IP of the host machine (192.168.1.9) and try to connect to my outside IP address (56.12.*.*) That only brings me to the router setup. So I try port forwarding port 80 and 21 to the computer IP. then try connecting from the outside. again I get nothing. Has anyone else had this problem, and does anyone have a soluion

Your ISP is probably blockign port 80 to prevent you from serving websites from your conenction. I bet if you have a friend try to conenct to your ip from another IP address they won't even get to your router setup page. -Ryan Adams http://RyanTAdams.com

Hmm... I dont think its my ISP, since i was able to do it when i just had a modem and a router. But you were right. from the outside (a friends place) I get a connection error. So from the sounds of things either my ISP has blocked port 80 from being hosted, or my router/modem has.

Try disabling the DMZ. You don't really want that any how. Set up your computer to serve your website on a different port, say 9999. Then configure the router to forward port 9999 to the computer with a web server. From another computer on your network, open up a web browser and type in "http://localipofwebserver:9999" and see if that works. Then try "http://externalipofwebserver:9999" and see if that works. Finally, try "http://externalipifwebserver:9999" from a computer not on the same local network. -Ryan Adams http://RyanTAdams.com

Thanks Ill give that a shot. But if that is the case, then from the outside Ill have to go to port 9999 all the time. meaning that Ill have to use a referal page in order to send HTTP requests to that port right? and if thats the case... than my personal webserver is kinda pointless, since Ill need some other webserver to forward people to my real one... Not complaining, but just checking

Yes. If your ISP is in fact blocking port 80, you would have to have your server listening on a different port. You can use services like dyndns.org, to redirect people to your home server with the proper port number, but if you are serving up anything important/professional this is probably too roundabout. -Ryan Adams http://RyanTAdams.com