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Access DNN Website Hosted In IIS On Windows 10 From Any PC On LAN

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Gino Palmia
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4/28/2020 10:07 AM

Hi everyone,

My DNN site (9.4.1) works well on windows and IIS 10 and I view it by typing "localhost" on the browser's address bar.

But if I try to visit the same site from a computer inside the LAN, the browser replies with the 404 error page.

I turn off the firewall and give "all" read and write power to the sharing properties of the DNN folder but nothing happens.

Can someone help me?

Thanks.

GP

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4/28/2020 1:03 PM

Localhost means 127.0.0.1 on the machine where you call it. Another computer in your Lan cannot access 'localhost' on another computer in your Lan. You can fool the system by setting a host entry on that remote computer for the hostname 'localhost' and pointing that to the IP address of the machine where your site is. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost

Gino Palmia
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4/28/2020 2:18 PM

Sorry Mariette maybe I wasn't explicit enough ... when I call DNN from another computer inside the LAN I make the call to the server's IP address.

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4/28/2020 2:53 PM
If you want to use the IP address, you need to "bind" that address to the DNN website in IIS on the hosting machine. You also need to add a portal alias to the DNN install that is the IP address.
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4/28/2020 3:37 PM
Posted By Gino Palmia on 28 Apr 2020 10:07 AM

Hi everyone,

My DNN site (9.4.1) works well on windows and IIS 10 and I view it by typing "localhost" on the browser's address bar.

But if I try to visit the same site from a computer inside the LAN, the browser replies with the 404 error page.

I turn off the firewall and give "all" read and write power to the sharing properties of the DNN folder but nothing happens.

Can someone help me?

Thanks.

GP

You could try this: https://www.40fingers.net...n-your-local-network

 

 

Gino Palmia
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4/28/2020 6:32 PM

Thank you Mariette, Joe and Timo,
I finally found the error ....
I had forgotten to set the portalAlias on the site settings.
Now everything works properly.
Thanks again ;)

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