I won't open a connection to 192.168.1.51 (only to 24.136.136.xxx)

Question

Popup message after a lo-o-o-ong hang:

500 I won't open a connection to 192.168.1.51 (only to 24.136.136.xxx)
500 Unknown Command

My Environment in my home:
- Three XP Home Systems SP3
- Behind a Linksys WRT54H Router 192.168.1.1,
- behind Cable Modem, IP - 24.136.136.xxx
- My main machine is fixed IP 192.168.1.51
- Router Forwards Port 80 to my main Machine on which I run Apache Ver. 2

I have been publishing like that for months.

Recently whild debuging connection problems, I changed from fixed IP to DHCP and ran for about a week that way, publishing as required.  I forgot to switch back to Fixed IP which doesn't matter too much because of what I am running  with APACHE.

Yesterday I switched bacK to fixed IP and rebooted for other reasons.

Today Published updates to three SUB_WEBS.

Next, I tried to publish an update to the root web, and it just hangs after It accepts my user/password with "listing files... (on remote)."

Several times, the hang was so long that I had to kill it with the Task Manager.  Two times it abended, and sent data too Microsoft.

This last time I tried to out-wait it again, and it wasn't too long I got the above message regarding IP address.

What's up?
I don't get it?

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carl

Answer 1

500 series responses from a server normally indicate a permissions issue.

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Answer 2

Now that's a completely inadequate answer...the question is WHY? and How do you fix it! I am having the same issue after switching to a new dedicated server. This however, looks like a local issue.

Any tips on troubleshooting this problem?

Answer 3

Now that's a completely inadequate answer...the question is WHY? and How do you fix it! I am having the same issue after switching to a new dedicated server. This however, looks like a local issue.

Any tips on troubleshooting this problem?

How do you figure it's inadequate?
I answered this post over 3 1/2 years ago and there was no further discussion.
A 500 error is a server permissions issue ...Period.

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Expression Web MVP

Answer 4

Server error means it is not an EW problem but a server issue. You need to talk to whoever manages the server.

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Answer 5

"500 is a permission error" is obvious. My question is: why is Expression Web 4 reporting a permission error, on what? The error is being reported by EW4, so a solution might be to suggest exactly what permission the program is needing to connect.
 
And BTW Cheryl, I DID ask my hosting company and guess what? They said to contact the software vendor to find out what permissions the program requires.

Answer 6

SR,

I've read your post in more detail including the duplicate thread - which netequitte says you should not have started.

If you are trying to access a locally hosted site so the host is you not your internet hosting company. Either your Apache install is not configured correctly or your DNS/router/firewall is causing an issue. It is not an Expression Web problem.

If you are trying to access a site on your computer you would use http://localhost not the IP address assigned in your NAT. If you are trying to access from another machine on your network using the network IP address would be the normal way of doing it but by using port forwarding you may have screwed something up. Port forwarding is for external requests to be delivered to a specific machine (and hosting a web server open to the internet is usually a TOS violation by most ISPs unless you have a commercial account that specifically authorizes you to operate a web server - typically with bandwidth limitations.)

This is a networking and Apache issue it is not an Expression Web issue.

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Answer 7

Now that's a completely inadequate answer...the question is WHY?

And just who the hell are you to make that judgment? Inadequate by what standards? Yours? And who do you think we are? We are not Microsoft employees, or indeed, employees here of any stripe, nor tech support personnel, but unpaid volunteer users of EW who come here to try to help others with the use of EW and, occasionally, issues regarding HTML and CSS.

We have access to zero technical or engineering documentation or expertise beyond what you yourself have access to, and we do not get paid to take guff from supercilious twits like you who come here thinking that we owe them something, and that they have the right to pass judgement on the quality of the answers we provide.

If you don't like the answers we provide, or think them inadequate, fine, hie your self-important little self somewhere down the road where someone gives a damn what your opinion is of their answers, because I'm pretty sure that no one here does.

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