Guidance Needed: How to make IIS on Windows 7 visible from outside my home LAN. I am building a learning/demo ASP.NET website on this Win7 PC, using VS2008. I would like to share the website with a client/friend, so I need my local IIS to be visible from outside the home LAN. This PC is behind a Netgear WGR614 router, which has a static IP address assigned by my ISP. I have set up port forwarding on the router; port 80 is HTTP.I can see the website as http://localhost/ and also as http://192.168.0.2 from other PCs inside the LAN.Ping works from outside, but not http. What am I missing?

You need to make a port forward in your Netgear router which directs traffic arriving from the internet to your external IP address and then translates it (i.e. send the traffic) to your web server on your internal network. If you login to your router you will most likely find settings for port forwarding there, if not please see the manual. The port you need to set is port 80 and possibly port 443 if you want to run over SSL.

Thanks Andreas. I did that, but still no connection. I am looking for whatever else might be blocking the connection. Any other thoughts?

not all ISP's allow you run a webserver behind the router, do you know if they do.TO be clear you gave the IIS a static IP and in the router you forwarded port 80 to that IP, right??

And you have to use the router's public IP, not the IIS server's private IP. Private traffic cannot cross the Internet. You connect to the router's public IP and the http traffic should be forwarded to the server on the LAN.Bill

Hi, Since this question is related to IIS and we have specific support for IIS related issues or questions, it is also recommended that you go to IIS Forum for help. Hope this helps. Thanks. Nicholas Li - MSFT

Look for the "Applications & Gaming" tab, (this is what it is named in a linksys router, should be something similar.) Look for the DMZ tab. Enable the "DMZ Host IP Address:" & set it to the local address of the machine you are using IIS on. ie 192.168.1.101 etc. Hope it helps, it had me stumped for ages. McG

guyz how about using crossover cable.. i want to use my other laptop to browse my project. so i made a direct connection without hub.. using crossover cable.. it works right thru ping.. but http doesn't.. any solution? thanks.. Ambie James M. Nicolas