[H-GEN] Web Page Viewing

[Tony Melia]

I found the best way around this is to use squid or another proxy on your
network, which will convert the www.yourweb.com back to local addresses,
even 127.0.0.1 via a hosts file on the squid PC. 


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Some time ago, I used a Netcomm NB1300 as a modem router.  While I was using
this, I could not view my own web pages, nor any of my friends'
virtually hosted web pages on my server.  I could not use the server's
internal address as the page defaulted to the external URL.  That is, if I
typed http://192.168.2.1, the browser suddenly loaded
http://www.mywebpage.com.au and could not proceed - I would get "404 Not
Found".  I could not get anywhere near the virtually hosted pages as the
server always defaulted to my own start page.

I replaced this router with a Netcomm NB5580 - more sophisticated, better
port redirection and VPN.  Suddenly I found that I could use
http://www.mywebpage.com.au and everything worked as it should.  I could
upload stuff and administer the pages as they were designed to do.  This was
especially handy on my laptop because I could put the external mail server
names (pop3. - smtp. )in the correct places and when I was ready to travel,
nothing had to be changed.  This router died.

I now have a D-Link DSL-G604T which I purchased after reading the
instruction manual online.  It was only after setting up the router that I
discovered that I could not longer view the pages looking outside and back
in again.  Same problem as with the NB1300.  After going to the tech support
area on the D-Link web site, I found a sentence under "Updating firmware"
which advises that one can't look out and back in again.  This leaves me
seemingly with a situation where I can't administer my LAMP based web sites
not check the health of the virtual sites.

I feel there must be a way around this - does anyone have any suggestions.

Regards,

Rick Phillips


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