I can access my website with my external static ip address. Anyone outside my wifi cant access my website. I assume this is a router problem? How do I allow other computers to allow access to my server?
Sturm 270 Veteran Poster
TheNNS 112 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
you have to forward the 8080 port to your server. There will usually be a port forwarding option on your router. It shouldn't be hard.
Sturm 270 Veteran Poster
But my web server runs on port 80... (I have already forwarded port 80 to my server.)
TheNNS 112 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
ok, are you using apache or IIS?
Sturm 270 Veteran Poster
Im using apache on debian linux. Heres my forwarding page: (note that before I forwarded to port 80 I could only access my website with the unique ip addresss my router gave all of the computers in my network. After forwarding I could just use the external ip address)
TheNNS 112 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
a firewall maybe?
Sturm 270 Veteran Poster
You mean on my server? I don't believe so.. (debian isn't configured with a working iptables install by default is it?)
TheNNS 112 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
i think there might be other settings on your router that need to be dealt with, like the virtual server settings. check those.
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