Cannot Get to Web Server

I have apache listening on port 7783. I can get to the page from inside my
network. I opened port 7783 on my Linksys router (I used port forwarding,
forwarding 7783 to 7783), but I still can't get to it from the Internet.

I don't have any entries in xinetd.

Is there something else I need to do?

In article <(E-Mail Removed) m>,
Buck Turgidson wrote:
> I have apache listening on port 7783. I can get to the page from inside my
> network. I opened port 7783 on my Linksys router (I used port forwarding,
> forwarding 7783 to 7783), but I still can't get to it from the Internet.

When you say "from the Internet", do you mean that you checked it from a
site outside your own? If not, get a friend to try http://your.host:7783
and see if that works. If you try your external IP from inside the
router, it probably will not do the port forwarding.

Linksys routers are (AFAIK) not running Linux, so this is not a Linux
networking issue. Check with Linksys (documentation, support), or an
appropriate forum, if you need help with it.
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:15:42 GMT, "Buck Turgidson" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I have apache listening on port 7783. I can get to the page from inside my
>network. I opened port 7783 on my Linksys router (I used port forwarding,
>forwarding 7783 to 7783), but I still can't get to it from the Internet.
>
>I don't have any entries in xinetd.
>
>Is there something else I need to do?
>

Linksys routers don't handle 'advanced' features like port forwarding
real well. I went thru a bunch of things trying to make a Linksys
work. Port forwarding and using the virtual host feature in Apache
are 2 things that I never did make work. (Don't ask me how it killed
vhost - but it did). I switched to a real firewall/router. If you
really need to make this work, contact linksys tech support and get
the newest firmware download. If (and it probably won't) that doesn't
do it, disassemble the firmware code and start patching.

IME, a Linksys 'router' is designed to be a NAT layer, any additional
functionality is accidental and subject to failure.

Mike-

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thanks,
Nick
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