setup school intranet

[Aaron]

Hi everyone

 

hoping someone can shed some light on the issue i am having here. I have install WAMP onto one of the servers and set the permission in the httpd.conf file to allow connections from the server and clients within an IP range, i have also added the port inbound rule to allow port 80 and everything is now working for me if i log onto any computer and open IE and type into address bar http://servername it works.

 

The issue is when a staff or student logs on and trys the same they get the website cant be found error. is there something that i am missing to allow everyone else access to see this?

 

I was also hoping to change it so that users dont need to type in http://servername would it be possible to change it so that when they first click on IE it opens the webpage to http://intranet (or is this just a simple rename of index to intranet and redirect IE to open \\servername\www\intranet?

 

thank you for any help in advance

[ShorehamGeek]

Do you use a proxy server? Do the Staff and student users need to have the server name added to the "Do not use proxy Server for" list?

I've never used WAMP - if it's not a proxy issue - might it be a file permission issue on the server (that you have permission to access, but regular users don't)?

Finally, I think what you're after is adding a CNAME (also known as an Alias) DNS record to map "intranet" to "servername", and then modifying the Group policy to make the home page "http://intranet" for your users.

[Aaron]

Thank you i am trying to figure out which policy i have on that is stopping staff and pupils from starting the index page i can understand that with my account i am administrator I have tried setting share permissions on the folder so that everyone can at least read but for some reason this didnt help. Users still get a message about the IP cannot be found.

 

Would this have anything to do with locking out staff and students from running ping from cmd at all?

[ShorehamGeek]

No - shouldn't matter about disabling ping. Have you tried just typing the IP address of the server into the browser for a staff or student login?

[Aaron]

yes but for some reason it gives up the same error message

[tumbleweed]

Sounds like proxy, you probably won't have one set as administrator - use group policy modelling to check what settings a specifuc user/machine get, it'll show you where they're coming from as well.

[TechMonkey]

Or the admin has "bypass proxy for local addresses" ticked whereas everyone else doesn't.