No matter what I do, I'm still not getting it right. I must be missing something.

I have a domain name though godaddy.com

DNS through zoneedit.com

I've installed IIS on my computer.

In IIS I have set up the default web site

Under properties, I have my external IP address entered, port 80, and www.mysite.com in Host Header name. (I don't know whether to use 127.0.0.1, or 198.168.1.1, or my external address for sure)

I have a router - Have port forwarded port 80 and 443 to 192.168.0.101, which is the computer with IIS.

I have IIS services started.

I can't even get it to open through http://localhost. (Error404 / There is no website setup at this location.)

The directory is correct - when I click open on it, it opens the folder with index.html.

There are no errors in the event viewer.

I am using XP Media Center

Please let me know if you can explain this or let me know of a site with specific instructions from start to finish on how to do this correctly, Thanks!

try these...

http://www.no-ip.com/support/guides/web_...

http://www.learnthat.com/courses/compute...