Directory Structure & Coding...

miles_rich

I have been having a problem with a web server latley.

The server sits on a network, behind a nat router, it can be accessed from the local network, and can be accessed from the internet.

No i have a config, file that has this in it.

$box = "192.168.0.1";
$root_folder = $box."/office";
$root_cust = $root_folder."/cust";

i then use this in to make links so a link would look like

<a href='<?php echo $root_cust; ?>/add_cust.php'>Add Customers</a>

which would genorate a link that pointed to http://192.168.0.1/office/cust/add_cust.php
which is fine when viewing it from inside the network, but it doesnt work when outside the network.

How would i solve this problem??

anthill

Well there's nothing wrong with your code of course, but i can't access your server at all so probably its a firewall problem or something.

Sorry i couldn't be of anymore help.

Ant

miles_rich

i know you couldnt access my server, you are missing the point, there is an internet ip address which is differenet to the internall ip address. that is where the links come unstuck

anthill

sorry dude, didn't quite understand your question. So are you saying you want it to work for your inside the network and work fine for people outside the network, so the value of $box will determine where the page is being accessed from?

If thats not what your saying then i'm going back to bed, if it is, well then i dunno the answer 🙂

Can't you use some kind of redirection from the ip accessing the network from outside, automatically referring them to that IP? Anyway, I dunno. 🙁

sorry

Ant

Flurp

Your problem is that you only have one ip adress incoming with your connection..

192.168.0.1 is an internal ip, you can not use it outside your own network

eg:

you have your internal network at home with a website and link pointing to 192.168.0.1, and your at work/school on their internal network.. if you klick a link pointing 192.168.0.1 your computer at school/work is going to look for the schools/works machine with adress 192.168.0.1

what im trying to say is that you can only access one point per connection...

to fix the problem, you could set up the 192.168.0.1 machine to run the http server on another port (81 is a good choice).. then instead of typing:

http://192.168.0.1/folder/file.php

type (if your incoming ip is 111.111.111.111):

http://111.111.111.111:81/folder/file.php

though.. you have to open port 81 in the firewall pointing to your 192.168.0.1 computer at home...

understand? good luck!