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Hi guys! THis is my first post

I have installed Joomla 3 on Server 2008 R2 and able to access the site through the internal IP but unable to access it through the external IP.
I have ports 80 and 21 open and forwarded (confirmed).
Also firewall is allowing all incoming connections through port 80 (not outgoing).
I have a DNS Server installed (not sure if configured properly)
I have allow Full control for the CREATOR OWNER for the joomla directory
I have to say I haven't configured the configuration.php file

Where should I start?

Mod. Note: Relocating the topic to Joomla on IIS server.

First, you have to have your server running properly. That is not a Joomla issue, The minimum version of IIS is 7.5.

Is the server listening on the external ip?

Use the Forum Post Assistant and post the result here, so we can check out your server.

Allowing incoming connections through port 80 is enough. Are you using IIS or Apache?

Your DNS server is not going to help much if it is internal and you use the IP address to access your site.

If you are using Apache, for example through the Wampserver bundle, make sure the virtual host is the first one listed in the configuration file conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf, or the default virtual host, if you access the server using only the IP address.

Once you have a domain name, you can then use the definitions NameVirtualHost *:80 and ServerName.

BTW, the Joomla installation normally sets the file configuration.php for you. If you edit it by hand, you could use e.g. Notepad++ but remember to start it 'As Administrator', otherwise you may not be able to update the file because of access rights, or you need to stop the Apache service before starting to edit.

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Please post the formatted out put with colour coding. It's suppose to look like in this thread http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=717&t=774387#p2949757

Press the "Show the Forum Post Assistant" button to have it generated.

Make these writeable:

SERVER TEMP:C:\Windows\TEMP
SERVER TEMP WRITABLE:No

Session Path Writable: No

Make this larger: Max. Upload Size: 2M

I don't know how to setup virtual hosts on IIS, but it's probably related to this error:
PHP Notice: Undefined index: HTTP_HOST in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\joomla3\libraries\joomla\uri\uri.php on line 174

Per Yngve Berg:

Im not sure where to go to make these changes above.
I can locate the folder: C:\Windows\TEMP

I am not sure where to write the lines:
SERVER TEMP WRITABLE: No
Session Path Writable: No
Max. Upload Size: 10M

Also I have read about make changes the config mode from 666 to 777. Do you recommend this and how can I go about doing it?

In regards to virtual host are you saying its not setup properly and I need to do this?
I opened the uri.php this is the relevant lines I could extract.

public static function getInstance($uri = 'SERVER')
{
if (empty(self::$instances[$uri]))
{
// Are we obtaining the URI from the server?
if ($uri == 'SERVER')
{
// Determine if the request was over SSL (HTTPS).
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && !empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && (strtolower($_SERVER['HTTPS']) != 'off'))
{
$https = 's://';
}
else
{
$https = '://';
}

/*
* Since we are assigning the URI from the server variables, we first need
* to determine if we are running on apache or IIS. If PHP_SELF and REQUEST_URI
* are present, we will assume we are running on apache.
*/

if (!empty($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) && !empty($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']))
{
// To build the entire URI we need to prepend the protocol, and the http host
// to the URI string.
$theURI = 'http' . $https . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
}
else
{
/*
* Since we do not have REQUEST_URI to work with, we will assume we are
* running on IIS and will therefore need to work some magic with the SCRIPT_NAME and
* QUERY_STRING environment variables.
*
* IIS uses the SCRIPT_NAME variable instead of a REQUEST_URI variable... thanks, MS
*/
$theURI = 'http' . $https . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];

// If the query string exists append it to the URI string
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) && !empty($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']))
{
$theURI .= '?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
}
}
}
else
{
// We were given a URI
$theURI = $uri;
}

self::$instances[$uri] = new JURI($theURI);
}
return self::$instances[$uri];
}

The configuration of php are done in php.ini

http://php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php#ini.session.save-path


The problem is that $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] does not return a value.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10910541/is-the-http-host-server-variable-always-defined


You should access the server with a domain name rather than an ip address.