[syedmahtab]

Hi all,

I had posted it in Web development section. But on direction of a senior member, it is being posted here in networking section.

Original post:
I am new to the forum. I have an issue and hope to get it solved now as I find many experts over here.

Status:
I have been locally hosting a Moodle website on Windows 2000 server. I have used Router's URL Forwarding & opened relevant ports to drive Internet traffic to the server and it is working fine.

Issue:
My major concern is: I have a LAN with 10 PCs. When I try to access my server from LAN, it brings router's web interface rather than opening website. Can anyone help me solve this issue? Thanks in advance.

[cwwozniak]

Try accessing the server using its internal LAN IP address (http://nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn). If you are using a port number other than 80 or 8080 on the server, you may need to tack the port number at the end of the IP address.

[syedmahtab]

Originally Posted by cwwozniak

Try accessing the server using its internal LAN IP address (http://nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn). If you are using a port number other than 80 or 8080 on the server, you may need to tack the port number at the end of the IP address.

Thanks for your reply. It will not solve the issue. When, I try to access it using this method, the images do not appear. Further a lot behaviour of website malfunction. I have tried out a solution temporarily by setting LAN settings in my explorer to point to server machine. This does fine for LAN. But with that setting, the client are unable to get to the internet.

I am looking for a solution so that, I may not need to apply any specific settings to client. Rather the router may direct the internal LAN traffic to my web server when local website is accessed. And for remaing websites, it may function as usual.

Hope it clears my point.

[cwwozniak]

It could be that the particular brand and model router you are using does not properly handle loop backs (connection between two computers on the same LAN using a public IP address).

Someone else here may be able to offer specific changes in the router settings that will work for you. Please let us know the brands and model numbers of the all the networking hardware involved and how it is interconnected.

[syedmahtab]

Thanks for your effort.

I have solved the issue. I have setup split DNS on windows 2000 server and it has solved the issue.

Any person requiring such help can contact me.

Thanks to all.