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hi im trying to set up a web hosting service using iis .

i have a domain name from godaddy.com
i used zoneedit.com free name server services to assign ns for my ip to mydomain.com
i set up iis server . now here is the problem i can access the webpage mydomain.com on my local network.
when i tell people to browse the site it doesnt work.
im on isp optonline and they use a dynamic ip ,which i wrote above already attached that ip to an ns .
i changed the port from 80 to 8000.
i port forwared on my linksys start 8000 end 8000 in the linksys menu.i still cant get one to reach it. any one can help me on this thanks

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Member Avatar for jbennet

your router needs to route all port 80 requests from the outside world to the ip adress of the w2003 machine

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hi yes i got it to work now.
i changed port 80 on my iis server to port 8000.
but now i have a new issue . where i need to type in
mydomain.com:8000 to access my page is there a way to change this so i would only need to type in mydomain.com? thanks

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