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15.7 Legacy Series / Access of Internal WEB Server via both LAN and WAN

« on: December 16, 2015, 12:12:29 am »

I am not quite sure where to look for this; I have tried and come up short.  Is anyone able to give me direction on how to set up an internal WEB server so that it is accessible from both the internal network as well as the external side. 

For example, say you have a WEB server at 192.168.0.100 port 8081 and you have NAT port forwarding so that you can see it from the outside world.  You have a URL that directs www.myurl.com:8081 that points to your firewall, which inturn then forwards that traffic to your WEB server at 192.168.0.100:8081.  From the outside, everything works perfect.

However, when you bring your laptop home and tie into your home network, again, you point your browser to www.myurl.com:8081 and the browser cannot resolve the address.  However, if you ping myurl.com, one gets an instant response with the WAN address identified.

I think the problem is that the web browser is trying to access the firewall on port 8081 and it does not respond... How do you make the firewall direct both internal and external traffic to the WEB server at 192.168.0.100:8081?

Thanks in advance...

Rudy

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15.7 Legacy Series / Re: Firewall: NAT: Port Forward

« on: December 14, 2015, 05:35:38 pm »

Franco / Smajor... I re-tested this from a different external connection, and it is working just fine. Therefore the simple configuration of Firewall: NAT: Port Forward works perfectly and one needs to test it properly from the outside.  Please consider this issue solved and thanks for your help.  Rudy

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15.7 Legacy Series / [SOLVED] Firewall: NAT: Port Forward

« on: December 14, 2015, 12:36:19 am »

I am struggling with Port Forwarding, specifically with what the Destination Address should be.  On some examples, I have seen it stated to be "WAN Address", but this is not an option.  Regardless, when I have this set up, the computer tied to this port forward is not visible from the outside.  The configuration looks as per the attachment.  Thanks for any insight.  Rudy