Redirect internal IP to external

blacblu · 17 May 2012 at 00:03

So, my problem is that I can't access a page hosted on my computer.

I have a page (http://localhost:50892/Default.cshtml) and want my friend to access it through the Internet, what kind of configurations should I do on my router?

blacblu · 17 May 2012 at 00:56

I did what you told be and asked to my friend try "myexternalIP:50892" on his browser, but it didn't worked at all.

Screenshots from my router configuration.

blacblu · 17 May 2012 at 03:34

bremen1874 said:
You shouldn’t need to be messing with port triggering at all.

Does the Virtual Servers Setup automatically open the port, or do you need to manually open it?

Is the machine at 192.168.1.2 running a firewall, and if so have you allowed traffic on the required port?

Is your friend remembering to include the http:// before the WAN address?

CanYouSeeMe.org is useful for checking that ports are open.

He probably wasn't using "http://"

But why is this necessary?

I tried using CanYouSeeMe.org but even with the port opened it didn't worked, according to the site the problem is that there is no route to host.

blacblu · 17 May 2012 at 15:44

PistolPete said:
Is your firewall on that machine setup to allow access to that port?
Can you access it from another machine on your LAN using 192.168.1.2:50892 ?

There is not any kind o firewall or other blocker installed/running on the PC in 192.168.1.2

I also can't access the page through other machine.

blacblu · 17 May 2012 at 19:40

mrbell1984 said:
Then something is blocking it dispite you saying there is no firewall on. What are you using for the software to host pages?

Microsoft Web Matrix

PistolPete said:
If it's a Windows machine, do a netstat -a from a command prompt and see if the machine is listening on port:

You should one that says
TCP 0.0.0.0:50892 YOURMACHINENAME:0 LISTENING

If not, the software is not working.
If you have one, then there is a firewall or something else blocking.... either that or the software if configured to be bound to 127.0.0.1 and not 192.168.1.2

There you go, the software seems to be working properly.

blacblu · 17 May 2012 at 20:12

Seems that my internal IP for my PC changed one on of my router resets, either way when I try to run "http://192.168.1.4:50892" from other machine nothing happens.

blacblu · 18 May 2012 at 00:46

But accessing "http://192.168.1.4:50892" from other machine on the network shouldn't open the page being hosted by WebMatrix?