Issue setting up a http server after gotomypc

[Comerwebs]

Hello guys, I have been lurking for some time reading and watching. Seems like a great group. Hate that my first post is a cry for help, not how I normally work. Little history. I have owned and operated Comer Web Development for 13 years part time. Did quite the business for a part time gig and it turned into a full time job and just recently quit my full time evening job. Full range computer shop. Anyway I have a client who wants me to set up a small file server which I have done 1000 times. Apache seemed a little over the top for him so I chose a simple http server called http file server, very basic and simple with GUI, something he can manage on his own. He is just serving files to his employees like bid sheets and invoices and such. I have set up numerous servers exactly the same as this one for other clients.

Windows 7 home premium. Pentium R Dual 2.0
Motorola router set to forward port 80 to the proper internal IP

I was getting the IIS7 server logo on localhost, it is not installed. I believe a scaled down version maybe used with gotomypc. so I used a different port, 8080 etc.. went through about 15 still no dice so I shut down IIS7's (Admin service and Internet Information Services) services and uninstalled gotomypc. Customer states that PC is 2 months old and didnt install IIs7
After that I get the server homepage and all looks good. The client wants to use no-ip so I set it up to use port 80 and set everything up.

No Dice on external whether through no-ip or direct ip. I do a open port check and it shows that whatever port I try is closed. I feel that when I find a solution to this it is going to be a face palmer, but for the life of my I cannot come up with it.

I tried apache on the computer with the same exact results. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks for reading, and I look forward to helping many others around here in the future. I also apoligize for the way this is written, have been a one man operation for 13 years.

 

[dk99]

Hello guys, I have been lurking for some time reading and watching. Seems like a great group. Hate that my first post is a cry for help, not how I normally work. Little history. I have owned and operated Comer Web Development for 13 years part time. Did quite the business for a part time gig and it turned into a full time job and just recently quit my full time evening job. Full range computer shop. Anyway I have a client who wants me to set up a small file server which I have done 1000 times. Apache seemed a little over the top for him so I chose a simple http server called http file server, very basic and simple with GUI, something he can manage on his own. He is just serving files to his employees like bid sheets and invoices and such. I have set up numerous servers exactly the same as this one for other clients.

Windows 7 home premium. Pentium R Dual 2.0
Motorola router set to forward port 80 to the proper internal IP

I was getting the IIS7 server logo on localhost, it is not installed. I believe a scaled down version maybe used with gotomypc. so I used a different port, 8080 etc.. went through about 15 still no dice so I shut down IIS7's (Admin service and Internet Information Services) services and uninstalled gotomypc. Customer states that PC is 2 months old and didnt install IIs7
After that I get the server homepage and all looks good. The client wants to use no-ip so I set it up to use port 80 and set everything up.

No Dice on external whether through no-ip or direct ip. I do a open port check and it shows that whatever port I try is closed. I feel that when I find a solution to this it is going to be a face palmer, but for the life of my I cannot come up with it.

I tried apache on the computer with the same exact results. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks for reading, and I look forward to helping many others around here in the future. I also apoligize for the way this is written, have been a one man operation for 13 years.

Hey no problem about your first post being a question.. I know a lot of ISP's block ports 80 and 8080 I would try another port # a quick check to see if its the router or not turn on dmz in the router and set the destination ip address to the ip of the file server if it works then its something with firewall or ports im sure you know to allow the ports in windows firewall also check the routers firewall and upnp to see if everything is ok. do they have a static ip or a dyndns account.. it has to be something easy.

 

[Comerwebs]

Hey no problem about your first post being a question.. I know a lot of ISP's block ports 80 and 8080 I would try another port # a quick check to see if its the router or not turn on dmz in the router and set the destination ip address to the ip of the file server if it works then its something with firewall or ports im sure you know to allow the ports in windows firewall also check the routers firewall and upnp to see if everything is ok. do they have a static ip or a dyndns account.. it has to be something easy.

I tried about a dozen different ports, no dice. I also tried the dmz with it pointing right at the server ip. I failed to mention in the last post I completely turned off the windows firewall. UpnP is checked. It is a dynamic dns which is why he is using no-ip. This has to be something I am missing with regards to gotomypc I think.

 

[dk99]

the only thing I can think of is his ISP is blocking. Maybe check for viruses

 

[TopLevelComp]

Try using port 8888. Port 80 and 8080 in Windows 7 and Vista are problem causers.

Or try this:

So what’s the solution?

You have to disable the http.sys service manually via the registry:

1) Launch RegEdit:

2) Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HTTP

3) Add a new DWORD (32-bit) value

4) Name it ‘NoRun’ not including the quotes

5) Double click the new property

6) In the Value data field type ’1′ not including quotes and click OK

7) Re-boot your computer

 

[MobileTechie]

ISP's blocking port 80?

Being that they are offering web access as their main service, why would they be blocking port 80?

 

[dk99]

ISP's blocking port 80?

Being that they are offering web access as their main service, why would they be blocking port 80?

Im not sure but Time Warner / Armstrong cable / Century Link dsl in Ohio block port 80 also when I lived and worked in Arizona Cox cable also blocked port 80.

 

[ATTech]

ISP's blocking port 80?

Being that they are offering web access as their main service, why would they be blocking port 80?

Blocking inbound port 80 requests, not outbound. They would do that to prevent their users from running web servers.

 

[MobileTechie]

Doh! Oh yeah


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