In trying to publish my website from iis5.1 on winx pro machine
I have done these steps:
--opened a port and verified it is not being blocked by isp
--set website to that port in iis mmc
--successfully accessed the site locally through that port
--verified the port is listening
--enabled port forwarding steps
Update : problem solved!
I was trying to test my on public IP address. You can't test your own public Ip address. The testing needs to be done with a proxy server like
http://sitesurf.net/