Strange problem...

[Tander]

Howzit guys.

I am having a strange problem with one of our users and am at a brick wall..

here is the background information..

They have a server in Johannesburg which hosts a web based program called ResRequest.

Now the site is not live as it's mainly used for everyone to access through the LAN. To do this I edit their hosts file to point the name: "live.resrequest" to the server's internal LAN IP address. Then make a URL shortcut to the desktop for http://live.resrequest/

This opens up the website and they can work off that no problem.

I then connected the WAN port of the server to an ADSL line with a static external IP address for outside access. I then did the same setup on my machine with the hosts files. But point the external IP address to the live.resrequest address.

This works for me at home no problems.

However a user who is also not in office, needs access and I did same setup that works on my laptop on to her machine and when she enters live.resrequest the browser just shows the index of the site ( like a FTP view of the files that make up the website )

I have reset Internet explorer, I have tried different browsers, shut down Anti virus, checked DNS etc..I cannot figure out why it wont show the main page...

Any ideas??

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[SykomantiS]

Maybe you have one too many a / in the address or name?

[Tander]

I've doubled checked that.

On her machine, entering the http://live.resrequest/ gets to the server here in JHB. But shows the indexed files. Not the web page. For me, entering that address shows the web page.

However her ISP has informed me they block all SMTP addresses, besides their own. I don't think that has anything to do with it, but still..

[SykomantiS]

Add the page name to the address?
http://live.resrequest/index.htm (or whatever the default page is?)

If not, I have no clue, you can tell me the answer...