topic Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky... in Tech Help - Software/Hardware etc

Hosting a web sit - tricky...

MaxTheDog — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:10:57 GMT

Hi,

A long story short, I've decided to host a domain on my Raspberrypi. I bought my domain, set it up so that it would use my Plusnet IP address, but when using a browser on my PC to access www.blahblah.org, I get a page not found error.

I have to say that up until now, I've been editing and using the plusnet web space on my Raspberrypi with no problem, so port forwarding seems to be set correctly.

I'm out of ideas, and any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Max.

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

Champnet — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:42:28 GMT

Can you tracert or ping your website to see if it's reaching your router ?

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

Mook — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:51:11 GMT

@MaxTheDog - In addition to the above have you got public DNS that resolves the address to your (static) PlusNet IP?

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

MaxTheDog — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:06:23 GMT

Hi,

On the domain purchasing website, I created a DNS record to point my website to the static IP address.

As to pinging the website, I've never tried. I suppose you just enter the web site address rather than the IP address (?)

Cheers,

Max

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

MaxTheDog — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:11:52 GMT

Hi,

Just tried pinging it, and ping can't find it. Pinged Google and all is fine.

Thanks,

Max.

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

Champnet — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:31:06 GMT

Not every router will respond to a ping.
On your web hosting company have you set the A record to point at your PN address ?

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

Mook — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:34:03 GMT

When you ping does it resolve to the correct (public) IP address?

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

MaxTheDog — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:35:51 GMT

Hi,

Yes, I did this yesterday. Is there anything I need to do at the PN end?

Thanks Max.

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

MaxTheDog — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:39:57 GMT

Hi,

No, it just threw it out saying it was unable to find it. Is there a more verbose version of the ping command?

Thanks,

Max.

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

dvorak — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:45:52 GMT

Have you forwarded port 80?

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

Champnet — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 16:02:01 GMT

Nothing to do with PN setup.

Try :

nslookup your-domain-name

The non authoritative answer should tell you where the site is….

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

dvorak — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 17:29:31 GMT

The fact that they're pointing the DNS at their PN ip would suggest otherwise - the Pi will be on their PN connection behind a router and without port forwarding would fail.

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

Champnet — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 17:49:11 GMT

There's 3 elements to check : Is the website pointing to the right IP address. Does the router forward corresponding external ports to correct internal ports. Is the webserver working correctly on the Raspberry.

@MaxTheDog Quick check. Assuming you haven't complicated the network the Raspberry should be on IP 192.1681.x, with the webserver listening to port 80. Using a browser can you see the website on address 192.168.1.x:80

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

MaxTheDog — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 21:40:47 GMT

Hi,

Ho Hum, that I'm not sure about. I went into port forwarding on my router, and no port numbers were mentioned. It came up with a list of games and programs. I selected HTTP, but still no port numbers mentioned.

There are various versions of plusnet modems out there, and I have no sight, so not sure which one I have, whilst recognizing that this makes it more difficult to answer my question.

Should I be in Settings or Advanced Settings?

Thanks,

Max.

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

MaxTheDog — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 21:42:59 GMT

Hi,

NSLookup couldn't find it either. Very odd...

Thanks,

Max.

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

MaxTheDog — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 21:46:04 GMT

Hi,

No, that doesn't find it. I invoked http://192.168.1.106:80

Chrome gave me the same answer as before, i.e. check the web address etc.

Thanks,

Max

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

Champnet — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 22:11:49 GMT

Is the error message identical to the one you got when you tried the domain name ?

The problem could be the server not finding the index page. Unfortunately I know vey little about Raspberrys.

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

MaxTheDog — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 22:19:57 GMT

Hi,

Pinging that IP address works fine, and if I load the page, i.e. http://192.168.1.106, I get things that I put in my Plusnet web space.

I use a headless pi, and access it using PuTTY. Great! no graphics...

Thanks,

Max.

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

Champnet — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 23:07:25 GMT

Looks like the server is working. On to the router, keeping it simple if you select HTTP (port 80 by default) it should give an option to input internal address IE 192.168.1.106. This will allow external to internal web traffic connections.

See how it goes…….

Re: Hosting a web sit - tricky...

Dan_the_Van — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 07:22:49 GMT

HI @MaxTheDog

On Hub One these are the ports defined in Game or Application "Select game or application" drop down found at

>Advanced Settings >Firewall

HTTP Server (World Wide Web) is TCP port 80
HTTP Server is TCP port 443

Link to Port Forward Tester

Hope this helps

Dan.