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5/27/2012 4:27 PM
 
fred.george.jackson


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How do you access a DNN website from another computer running on the same network? At this point, my site is not live on the internet but it is running locally on my machine. I am trying to access it from another computer on the same network using the ip address of my machine instead of the localhost address. Say my website URL is http://localhost:30814/ and my ip address is 191.141.0.101, I typed in http://191.141.0.101:30814/ on the other computer on my network but I get a message saying the webpage cannot be displayed. Why is this the case? Could it have something to do with my firewall settings?

 I got a response saying the following: "You will need to add a portalalias for the host machine's ip address."

If that response is true, how do I add a portal alias to my host machines ip address? Otherwise, how can I access the site from another computer on the same network as mentioned above.

 
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5/27/2012 5:14 PM
 
Michael Gerholdt


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DNN wants to know all of the ways an http request can come in for a particular portal. That's how it knows which portal to map a particular http request to. Internally, it uses portalID as the way for mapping to a particular portal's resources, not the http request.

Log on to the portal on your local machine, and in site settings find httpalias. Add the IP and port as an alias for the portal. Once you have done this, you should be able to access from another machine on the same network, using the IP. Or also from localhost, you can now use the IP address instead of localhost, and it will work - as long as you enter it correctlly.

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5/28/2012 9:39 AM
 
fred.george.jackson


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Thank you so much, that was very helpful.
 
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5/28/2012 11:55 AM
 
fred.george.jackson


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I will walk you through what I did because I am still having trouble. My local website has home page: http://localhost:30810/en-ca/home.aspx. The computer that I would like to log in from has IP address: 191.161.0.101.

I logged in as Host then went to Admin -> Site Settings -> Site Aliases -> Add new alias -> I typed in 191.161.0.101:30810. Now, I went to the computer with IP address 191.161.0.101 -- it is on the same network as my machine -- and I typed in 191.161.0.101:30810/en-ca/home.aspx to the URL bar. However, when I do this I get an error saying that the page cannot be displayed. I waited a few hours and tried again but the same error message comes up on Internet Explorer.

Did I do something wrong? How do I fix this problem?
 
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5/28/2012 12:24 PM
 
Sebastian Leupold


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you might need to modify your firewall configuration, opening requests to port 30810. Which Windows version and web server are you using?
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