Publishing map with GeoServer?

Question

I don't know why the users that visit my website cannot see the map i have published with geoserver. The steps i took to do this have been:

• importing the data to geoserver
• adding the layers to geoexplorer
• i have changed the style a little
• hit publish map on the geoexplorer
• selected the tools i want to have - next
• copied the link that i need to copy in the webpage
• changed from localhost to the name of my pc
• pasted the code in my webpage.
• i can see the page with the map frame, but the visitors cannot. the error they get is:

the server refused the connection

Answer 1

You didn't provide any information about your website location, but something didn't fit in this equation:

changed from localhost to the name of my pc

If your website is hosted somewhere on the web then your users must use a domain name to visit it, or a public ip of your computer.

Therefore, I suggest you to change localhost with your domain name or with the public ip instead of the computer name.

Answer 2

Are you perhaps passing the url to a web mapping javascript library and you haven't sorted out CORS filtering?