Appserv with a router

[Elmdor]

I'm new to the forums so yell at me if im doing something wrong

I am trying to set up a server through my linksys router, but people outside my network can't access it. I've got the port set to 80 and told my router to forward it to the correct computer, but still no dice from the outside world. There was something like this posted on the appserv sticky but it didnt seem to get resolved...

 

[jajmon]

Welcome to the Forums

If you have the router setup right with port forwarding, your friend/s should type in the address window of their browser, your external (wan) address. You can find this out by logging on to your router's admin screen. There should be a section that displays the address you get from your ISP.

Hope this helps.

 

[Smokeys]

Some isps block port 80, try another like 8080.

 

[Andyman902042]

Did you reboot your router? I had the same problem and I couldn't figure it out until I saw where it said "changes will take effect after reboot."

 

[Elmdor]

Hmm I got it working but in a pretty sketch way. First I changed the port to 8080 but still couldnt see the site from other locatoins. I eventually tried entering http://url:8080 and that worked, woohoo! I'll just use one of no-ip's 5 other free hosts to point at the address with port extention so i wont have to keep entering that

 

[Fightingpiper]

well you had to enter http://:8080 because all http traffic defaults to port 80 and it looks like your ISP blocks it. SO unless you specify a different port in the address line (like you did) no one will be able to connect just by typing in a plan ol' Http://...... Good job on figuring it out. And I do the same thing with no-ip.....