Help Setting Up IIS 2003 Server

[shootsnlad]

Couple of questions, but first a background. Have a server with Server 2003 on it. IIS 6.0, SQL 2005. Bought a domain from god*ddy. I also have internet running through a DSL router. Currently router is set to let http traffic through on port 80. Question is does anyone have any good sites for getting IIS setup correctly for me to host a ASP.NET app. Also any tips on getting the domain to point to the local server through the router. The router has a public IP, server does not. NAT is enabled and the routing should route port 80 to the private IP of the server. Suggestions or tips?

Thanks a lot!

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

If the router supports port forwarding then you would need to configure it to forward port 80 on the external address to port 80 on the IIS boxs address.

Depending on who you bought the domain from they may have different procedures for how to get changes done - ultimately though you would need them to point www.yourdomain.name to the external address of your router.

NAT doesnt need to be configured for this as it mainly is used to allow clients behind the router access to the outside world rather than clients outside to access the internal network.

 

[mskeel]

As far as the DNS goes (getting www.yourdomain.com to point to your server) I can reccomend http://EveryDNS.net. Theyre free and give you a lot more flexibility than go daddy will for sub domains and such. Its all pretty self explanatory too. I think they have tutorials to tell you how to get everything set up and pointing to your server.

Go daddy has tools that will help you get all of that set up as well, theyre just a little hard to use at times and sometimes restrictive depending on what you want to do.