I tried what John mentioned, and got a connection failed error after about 10-15 seconds. I also included serve/servlet and add #:listen-ip #f at the bottom of my application. The documentation also says to change the top of my application from #lang web-server/insta to (require web-server/servlet) (provide/contract (start (request? . -> . response/c))) but I'm not sure what the second line is doing, if that is a correct syntax or not or if I should change/add something to that line, and it is causing an error saying something like (undefined module in responce/c. ) I'm providing the code that I'm using in case anyone has the time to take a look and see if there is something I'm doing wrong. Thanks, <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay.mccarthy@gmail.com">jay.mccarthy@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Another thing to do is to switch to serve/servlet and add #:listen-ip #f to the arguments. Jay <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:02 PM, John Clements <<a href="mailto:clements@brinckerhoff.org">clements@brinckerhoff.org</a>> wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2009, at 10:20 PM, gadva wrote: > >> Thanks for the quick reply, >> >> Sorry If I was unclear with the question, I just haven't had that much >> experience with setting up a web server before, and with networking in >> general so I'm not sure about the right terminology yet. >> >> I guess my question was how to setup the application to serve requests >> to users connecting to my server by typing >> <a href="http://serverIP:8000/myapplication.ss" target="_blank">http://serverIP:8000/myapplication.ss</a>. >> >> Because right now when I test it on a browser from within the server >> it runs ok, but when I attempt to connect from a different computer it >> does not work. So by using the code described above (and in the PLT >> Blog Application example from the website) (basically using web-sever/ >> insta, serve/servlet) I am running the application on a selected port, >> so when a user connects to my IP adress with the correct port etc >> shouldn't the web server accept a request and respond with the HTML >> page that I define? > > Speaking very generally, yes. > > My guess is that the external requests are not reaching your web server, > either because of a software firewall or because of an external network > firewall. > > One easy test is to try to contact the your PLT web server on the given port > using a simple telnet client from another machine, e.g.: > > my-other-machine% telnet serverIP 8000 > > If it goes through... well, I'd be surprised. My guess is that it will > fail, but it can fail in two very different ways: most firewalls refuse to > answer entirely, in order to increase the cost of port scanning. So if you > get an immediate "server is not answering" message, then there's probably no > firewall in place. If you just get a stalled telnet, then there's probably > a firewall in place. > > FWIW, there are about 150 things that could be going wrong here; my > confidence that I'm steering you in the right direction is only slightly > higher than 50%. > > All the best, > > John Clements > > > </div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > <a href="http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme" target="_blank">http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme</a> > > -- Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay@cs.byu.edu">jay@cs.byu.edu</a>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University <a href="http://teammccarthy.org/jay" target="_blank">http://teammccarthy.org/jay</a> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 </div></div></blockquote></div>