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Strife_09   01-05-2009 at 07:20:35 PM

I have setup a computer at my friends home, monitoring their heating. A webserver application is provided with the monitoring software but without any user instructions or sample programmes to study. I do not understand how to connect to this application remotely. By default, it uses port 80 but thats all I know. I can connect to the computer using Remote Desktop without any problem but I would prefer to use the Web application provided. Can someone help this dinosaur please.

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JustAGuy51   01-08-2009 at 09:08:12 AM
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From what I understand, here is what you are saying: that monitoring application has web interface (usu. people say this as miniature web server built into it) and you don't know how to connect to it.

Assuming that you can directly connect to that computer from Internet (no firewall, no NAT device, etc.), open up a browser and type in http://<that PC IP address>. You can also use Fully Qualified Domain Name instead of IP address.

If this doesn't work, check that it does use port 80. If it uses other ports, then http://<that PC IP address>:<port>. You append it with a colon and port number.

If still doesn't work, you are missing other things. In that case, let me know.

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Strife_09   01-08-2009 at 11:06:29 AM
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JustAGuy51... Thanks very much for your reply. Whilst I was able to connect to the PC using Remote Desktop but not by IE using your suggested format, further investigation found that the fault was caused by the remote router's firewall settings for this application. This has been resolved and I can now access the PC successfully using IE.

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