I have a Huawei HG256s router (local LAN IP 192.168.1.1) which is configured to with a local IP 192.168.1.10 as DMZ to my WD MybookLive. I also have another buffalo NAS which has IP of 192.168.1.11. I setup a web server on the MybookLive and using the public IP available from the Huawei router, I can visit my website. I am able to access both MybookLive and Buffalo NAD within my WIFI LAN, but it does not work via internet. My question is how can I make a website that will allow me to access to my buffalo NAS from internet? Any advice will be helpful. Thanks you for reading.
Normally you set up a port forwarding.That can be done in the router menu.
Afterwards you can access the service running on the port via the public IP on that specified port.
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Goal
I am trying to setup a secure connection to a PC in our network.
The goal is to be able to access a domain, api.mydomain.test, on that PC, that is served by Apache.
Setup
To securely connect to the server, I have implemented the Softether VPN Server on the PC. The VPN network must be separate from our own local network, which the PC is also on.
The idea is to add an IP whitelist in the vhost record op Apache to allow only people on the VPN subnet to connect to the domain api.mydomain.test. Next to this filter, we also added a firewall to the PC to not allow any connection on port 80 or 443.
Issue
I can connect to the VPN perfectly and receive an IP ofthe subnet 10.11.12.x.
However, I can't seem to be able to access the server on localhost or via the IP of the other network the PC is on (10.10.2.x).
To be frank, I don't even know how to do this when connected to the VPN.
What have I tried?
Use a local tap bridge instead of virtualNAT and virtual DHCP.
This was not working as expected, because then the VPN clients (my laptop) did not receive an IP.
Add routes to allow 10.11.12.x IPs to access localhost.
According to documentation of Softether, the virtual NAT does not use the routes, so this would be useless for our goal.
What I do not know, is how this is normally setup?
I have the feeling I am trying to do this the wrong way, so any ideas or different approaches would be greatly appreciated!
It has been a while since I started using wampserver online, and until now it all went fine, but I recently started having a problem: I can access the server through a local ip (192.168.1.37 | 127.0.0.1 | localhost) if connected to my router or from my router's ip (e.g. 83.85.44.55) if im NOT connected to my router.
So basicaly if I'm connected to my router and try to access the servel with my router's external ip, I get a timeout error, whereas if someone from for example India tried to connect he would be able to do so.
I'm currently using wampserver 2.5 for windows with apache 2.4.9 and have already re-installed everything.
Thanx in advance.
Elemermelada -
Port forwarding can be tricky when you are trying to access the server from multiple networks (i.e. your internal network and somewhere else on the internet). You are able to access the server with it's local IP because you are on the same subnet and there is no routing being done. When you attempt to connect to your webserver with your router's IP address, you are never making it to the webserver, regardless of the NAT/Port forwarding in place. The traffic is being dropped by your router because you are trying to access it from the inside. Unless you have a router that can be configured in a certain way, you will always need to connect to your webserver by it's local IP address when you are on it's local network.
Hey Guys I am trying to configure my xampp server so that people outside the LAN can access my website through my public IP address. I know there are many answers out there and I have tried them all but it still wouldn't work. So here is the description:
I am able to access my xampp server through localhost, 127.0.0.1, and 192.168.1.xxx ip addresses but when I type in my public ip address it wouldn't work. (I am a college student and I live in apartments and I am pretty sure that we all in our community have the same public ip address) Any way, I forwarded all the ports by signing into my default gateway.
The strange thing is when I login to my router default gateway(192.168.1.1), under the status tab, I see what is call the Internet IP address for ipv4 which is 10.12.xx.xxx which seems to be unique but is not my public IP Address. So I tried accessing my server through that address and it works. I can also connect to the server by connecting to my roommate's router with the same IP address 10.12.xx.xxx. Then I try to connect it through my mobile which is connected to my wifi, that works too. However, when I switch off the wifi on my phone and get on 3g I can't access my server. So I can only access my server over the LAN(My community). Is there any way I can access it over WAN?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
I am trying to setup a web-server at home on PC.
I have an Static IP address (say 1.2.3.4 or Domain XYZ[dot]com), which I have configured on my router.
When I try to access, XYZ[dot]com or "1.2.3.4", it opens my routers login page.
On the other hand, Apache Server, installed on the PC, works fine. when I write localhost/index.html or 127.0.0.1/index.html - it opens that page.
QUESTION
How can I link the Public IP address to the Apache Server (or the website hosted on localhost on my PC)?
EXPECTED SOLUTION
If anyone visits "http://XYZ[dot]com", the website hosted on my PC is opened on his/her web browser.
The router's login page is usually accessed via a private IP. The router's admin interface shouldn't be made available to the Public Internet.
What you need to do is:
find out what your router's public IP is (you can use http://whatismyipaddress.com/)
setup port forwarding on your router. You want connections made to the routers public IP to be forwarded to your PC. Ex: Your router's public IP is 21.21.21.21 and your PC's private IP is 192.168.0.100. You need to configure a rule which says that any connection made to to 21.21.21.21:80 needs to be forwarded to 192.168.0.100:80
As for the http://XYZ[dot]com part you need to setup that domain pointing to your public IP with a com. DNS registrar and configure an apache virtual host for that domain (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/)
If you have static IP ADDRESS then you don't need to do anything extra you just have to add apache exception in firewall then tick the checkbox under private and public column and you are done. then anyone can access your website all over the world.
You will need to create a permission for that port on your firewall and configure the ports on your router. Keep in mind that most internet providers have business and residential plans. In residential plans it is common for them to block access to ports 443 and 80 externally (enabling your router will not change that because the requests will not even arrive on it).
An excellent step by step for those who use linux and also want to set up a domain name
i have hosted a wcf service in our office machine and which is being accessible from other pc in LAN. our office has static IP. so how can i access my wcf service from the out side of office if i know the static ip of our office.
now i am accessing the service from lan using this url http://192.168.6.2:7741/Services/CustomerService
if our office static ip is 122.160.187.236 then can i access my service just replace the ip address with static ip address ? please tell me all require steps to access wcf service over the internet. thanks
You will need to forward the port 7741 on the router to the 192.168.6.2 IP address.
You'll have to ask someone who has access to the router to do this.
Not sure what your environment is like but on your general router these settings will generally fall under 'advanced settings > NAT
Check out http://portforward.com/ for info on port forwarding.
Also, if you have a firewall, you need to ensure that traffic via port 7741 is allowed.
This is probably the quickest way to achieve what you want, but not the most secure. Establishing a VPN would be better but I'm not going to open that can of worms now.
Niel
it's not enough to know only IP of your network if you want access your machine from outside. Probably you should talk to administrator of your network to either establish virtual private network or assign external IP address to your machine. Actually the question related mostly to network administration and configuration, but not to WCF.
If you want to access your WCF Service from outside your LAN, from the internet, you need to assign a DNS Server outside on the internet that can assign to you a public static IP Address, because your LAN is most probably using a DHCP to lease a temporary static private IP Address. Some DNS server are free and other you need to pay a monthly fee.