Personal Web Sharing

[droberts]

I trying to use the Personal Web Sharing feature on my AirPort network. I have followed all instructions on the Apple support pages (Article ID: 61500).
I can view the file locally in the browser, but thats it.
I believe my problem lies in my AirPort config, but I could be wrong.
At this point I am totally lost :confused: and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

[hayne]

Please tell us in more detail what you are trying to do, what works and what doesn't.

Are you trying to access the web page from a computer outside your Airport network? If so, you will need to configure "port forwarding" (also called "port mapping") in your Airport basestation. Do a search of these forums and the main macosxhints site and you will find explanations of how to do this.

[droberts]

Thank you hayne for replying to my query.

"Are youtrying to access the page from a computer outside your Airport network?"
Yes I am. I can view the page from my iBook. But from nowhere else.

"If so, you will need to configure "port forwarding""

This is what I thought.
I am unfamilliar port mapping but I will do as you say and search for more info.

[droberts]

> I have searched the forums and have found way too much information.

> Here is all of my information.
> I am using an iBook alone on the base station.
> the iBook's internal address is 10.0.1.2
> my IP addressis 206.116.75.66
> my Router address is 206.116.72.254
I have forewarded port 80 (my private IP should read 10.0.1.201) am I right about that?

[hayne]

Originally posted by droberts
> Here is all of my information.
> I am using an iBook alone on the base station.
> the iBook's internal address is 10.0.1.2
> my IP addressis 206.116.75.66
> my Router address is 206.116.72.254
I have forewarded port 80 (my private IP should read 10.0.1.201) am I right about that?
I don't understand why you are talking about 10.0.1.201 when your iBook's address is 10.0.1.2
Was that a typo?

[droberts]

Sorry about that
It was a typo

the port mapping dailog looks like this
Public Port
80
Private IP address
10.0.1.2
Private Port
80

Have I done this right at least?

[hayne]

Originally posted by droberts
Public Port
80
Private IP address
10.0.1.2
Private Port
80

Have I done this right at least? That looks correct.

Do you have the OS X firewall on?
If so, check to make sure that port 80 is allowed through. I think this happens automatically in the Sharing prefs when you turn on Web Sharing.

And is your Airport basestation connected directly to your DSL modem? If there is any other router-type device in between, port mapping will need to be done on that device as well.

[droberts]

My airport is connected to a hub.
The hub is connected to the DSL, and a PC

Do you have the OS X firewall on?
If so, check to make sure that port 80 is allowed through. I think this happens automatically in the Sharing prefs when you turn on Web Sharing.

I am sure that port 80 is allowed through.

[droberts]

I am not sure what was wrong. But when had my friend from out of town try my IP, she got my .html file without any trouble.

My PC which is connected directly to my DSL modem via a hub still gives me a server not found error. This is the machine where I would test my IP to find out if everything was working or not. Since it would get this error I kept on changing settings on my AirPort.

Any ideas why the server can't be seen by my PC

Thank you Hayne for all of your help

[hayne]

There is a service offered by the W3C for checking the validity of HTML pages:
http://validator.w3.org/

It can be used in the current situation (of this thread) as a way to test if an external computer can access your web page.

You may have to specify the "encoding" (e.g. to "us-ascii") to get the validator to work.