Default website only viewable from server itself

#1 02-06-2008, 06:04 AM

Hi,

We have enabled iis on a w2003 member server (it is also a wsus3 server).

When we enter the server's IP in a web browser at the server the default
web page displays correctly.

However if we do the same from a workstation *at the same subnet* the
browser times out without being able to find the page.

From the workstation we can ping both the server's ip and its name so
communication is ok. No firewall.

How do we proceed to troubleshoot this....?

thanks for tips

jake

#2 02-06-2008, 06:44 AM

Hi,

try following command

telnet <serverIP> 80

See what comes up, if you get error "couldnt find host" then deffinately its
network issue. and if nothing comes up except blank screen then its able to
connect to the web server on port 80.

--
Regards,
Chaitanya Shah

"Jake" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have enabled iis on a w2003 member server (it is also a wsus3 server).
>
> When we enter the server's IP in a web browser at the server the default
> web page displays correctly.
>
> However if we do the same from a workstation *at the same subnet* the
> browser times out without being able to find the page.
>
> From the workstation we can ping both the server's ip and its name so
> communication is ok. No firewall.
>
> How do we proceed to troubleshoot this....?
>
> thanks for tips
>
> jake
>

#3 02-06-2008, 07:14 AM

Chaitanya skrev:
> Hi,
>
> try following command
>
> telnet <serverIP> 80
>
> See what comes up, if you get error "couldnt find host" then deffinately its
> network issue. and if nothing comes up except blank screen then its able to
> connect to the web server on port 80.
>

Hi,
I don't understand that it would be a network issue when we can ping the
server nicely from the workstation?

However the workstation couldn't connect to the server via Telnet on
port 80 but as I said, it can ping ok. And there is no firewall acting
on port 80.

regards

jake

#4 02-06-2008, 02:42 PM

Jake skreiv:
> Chaitanya skrev:
>> Hi,
>>
>> try following command
>>
>> telnet <serverIP> 80
>>
>> See what comes up, if you get error "couldnt find host" then
>> deffinately its network issue. and if nothing comes up except blank
>> screen then its able to connect to the web server on port 80.
>>
>
> Hi,
> I don't understand that it would be a network issue when we can ping the
> server nicely from the workstation?
>
> However the workstation couldn't connect to the server via Telnet on
> port 80 but as I said, it can ping ok. And there is no firewall acting
> on port 80.
>
> regards
>
> jake

There isn't a installer commandline switch which just recreates missing
properties and settings like this...?

jake

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