Hi to all on the forum, not sure if this is the right place to post this but....

I am running my own webserver and up untill now checked my sites on a second broadband connection. Due to an accident i can now only afford the one connection.

My question is, how can i view my sites using domain name or static ip (not local)
I am running windows server 2003

I saw a post mentioning host files but did not quite understand if that is what was deeded, I am assuming that i need to loopback somehow.

My router has no loopback

Hope somone can help......Many thanks

I'm not really clear on what you're asking. Are you saying you're hosting and browsing from the same connection? I don't see why you wouldn't be able to browse to your sites as long as the domains are registered and pointing correctly.

You said something about loopback?
try localhost or 127.0.0.1

Are you running your webserver on the same machine you are browsing?

I'm kind of lost in the question to. To view your website on your webserver you would just open up internet explorer and type in your local hosts ip or to make it simply just http://localhost

It should display the site as it will on any remote server. If your asking about dns issues with the domain I would use someone like dyndns.com to provide dns services.

what pr0blem actually u r facing? explain clearly

Sounds like you may want to edit your WIndows .hosts file and enter your domain along with your local IP, 127.0.0.1.

It does sound like you need to edit your hosts file. The file is located in your WINDOWS dir under system32/drivers/etc. File name is 'hosts'

Open that up with a text editor and scroll down, it's pretty self explanatory.