I'm unable to find any tutorials or information in regards to configuring the web server portion in the Synchronet Control Panel. I've opened ports 80 & 443 through my router and firewall. I don't have a domain name but trying to just use my external IP address to access the website. I can see the Web Server recognizes a connection has been made to it but I get nothing reporting back in the web browser.
7/28 06:32:47a 2564 HTTP connection accepted from: {My External IP Address} port 59840
7/28 06:32:47a 2564 Request: GET / HTTP/1.1
7/28 06:32:47a 2564 Guest account unavailable
7/28 06:32:47a 2564 Sending file: F:\sbbs\temp\SBBS_SSJS.3252.2564.html (0 bytes)
Not sure if I misconfigured something, I'm missing a step, or whatever other possibility there could be?
Thanks for any and all help / guidance.
Thank you for your quick response!
I host an FTPES site using FileZilla on same router using the external IP address and it works. I love the Synchronet BBS! I was able to get it working. I missed the good ole days of being a BBS Sysop. I've just never hosted a website before so this is a learning experience for me.
Are there any additional ports I need to open on the router and/or Firewall other than port 80 and 443?
WS listens on port 1123 and WSS listens on port 11235. I'm also trying to be careful as to how many ports I allow access through.
I greatly appreciate the help!
Here's a bit more detail which may help. (Hopefully).
From the same computer that I am hosting the website. I open a browser and as the URL I enter: http://{MY EXT IP ADDRESS} and press Enter.
I can see the control panel Web Server is receiving my connection and the connection does appear in the Client [TAB]. So this confirms I can connect through my router to the webserver. What's not happening is that I'm not seeing anything come back to my browser. I disabled my Windows Defender firewall to make sure it was not causing a problem.
I can do the same with http://{MY INT IP ADDRESS} and same results.
Services Configuration: Services [TAB]: Only listing enabled Protocols
NNTP
MSP
ActiveUser
ActiveUser-UDP
Finger
Gopher
IRC
WS
WSS
Seems as though the server is somehow blocked and/or unable to send information out to the browser.
Sorry, typo I meant Now not Not.
Now I need to get the default website up and running. I'll need help with that as well.
Leviathan wrote to Digital Man <=-
My ISP is relentless, they blocked port 8080 on me making it impossible
to run a web server without a static IP address.
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Digital Man wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
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Not since changing settings a couple of weeks ago to show my origin line.
My ISP is relentless, they blocked port 8080 on me making it impossible to run
a web server without a static IP address.
I was able to check out both websites though. Really cool man! Very impressive!
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