problems getting past my LAN/router
[1/8] from: eric:ehrichweiss at: 15-Dec-2004 16:04
Hi,
I've been playing with Rebol on and off for a couple years now but only
recently needed to do anything that required access from outside my LAN.
Well to get started I began playing with the tiny webserver code and to
test it I tried accessing it from my IP(I've got static IP) and the
server didn't seem to be listening to anything outside of my LAN. At
first I had problems getting it to be seen beyond my loopback interface
but I finally figured out what I was doing and now this.
Before you suggest it, I already have my router set to forward port 80
to my server so that's not the problem(plus it's setup as the DMZ so
everything should pass openly to it). My firewall is configured to allow
Rebol full access to the network.
Anyone have any ideas?
I'll entertain any and all thoughts...
P.S. I'm using the latest version of Core and View so this is not a
simple update issue
[2/8] from: eric:ehrichweiss at: 15-Dec-2004 22:22
Never mind... I'm gonna hafta work with why it doesn't allow network
access if the directory of the script isn't inside the rebol dir...
Ah well...
[3/8] from: carl:rebol at: 16-Dec-2004 11:44
I'm interested in hearing the solution to this as well. I've seen similar
DSL/Cable router problems at homes I've visited. That is, even though
the router is set to forward in-bound ports to a LAN host (port 80 or
even AltME ports), the router does not do it. These routers are pretty
simple, and there are not a lot of options. Perhaps it is actually an
ISP issue in some cases. Anyway, comments are appreciated.
-Carl
At 01:04 PM 12/15/2004, you wrote:
[4/8] from: eric::ehrichweiss::com at: 17-Dec-2004 11:46
(resending cause I haven't seen it go through yet)
Hi Carl,
This is what I discovered. No matter what I do, if my script is run from
outside my rebol dir, the script will not have any non-loopback
interface connections. So if my directory is "c:\rebol\view" and my
script is in "d:\scripts", it won't open the port except as loopback.
Here's something that I'm now trying to work out and I'll probably start
a new topic for it later if I can't find an answer soon: I've been
running the "5 page" Rebol webserver that is supposed to handle cgi,
etc. but for some reason I can't get it to handle POST-ing forms; it'll
handle GET just fine. I know my script works because I tested it with
Aprelium(which I like but suspect it'll be overwhelmed when I start
taking on 1000+ connections at a time), so I suspect that the webserv.r
isn't passing the POST data along to the form action script.
P.S. I just upgraded View to 2.6.0 and when I run it, it no longer opens
the Desktop by default, is there a good way to change this?
Carl wrote:
[5/8] from: carl:cybercraft at: 24-Dec-2004 18:05
On Thursday, 16-December-2004 at 16:22:24 Eric wrote,
>P.S. I just upgraded View to 2.6.0 and when I run it, it no longer opens
>the Desktop by default, is there a good way to change this?
Yes - in prefs.r (which should be in your REBOL/View directory) set desktop to true.
-- Carl Read.
[6/8] from: eric:ehrichweiss at: 24-Dec-2004 11:29
Carl Read wrote:
> Yes - in prefs.r (which should be in your REBOL/View directory) set desktop to true.
>
Carl, it was set as true..still no desktop on startup...this is weird..
[7/8] from: ingo:2b1 at: 25-Dec-2004 20:31
Hi Eric and Carl,
Eric Haddix wrote:
> Carl Read wrote:
>
>>Yes - in prefs.r (which should be in your REBOL/View directory) set desktop to true.
>>
> Carl, it was set as true..still no desktop on startup...this is weird..
I've seen that, too.
The other way (which worked for me, btw), add
desktop
into your user.r
Hope that helps,
Ingo
[8/8] from: eric:ehrichweiss at: 27-Dec-2004 18:38
Ingo Hohmann wrote:
> I've seen that, too.
>
> The other way (which worked for me, btw), add
>
> desktop
>
> into your user.r
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Ingo
>
It worked like a charm. Thanx!!!