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Help, I've got a Opera webserver with a web page that I designed with Xara software. The pages work OK within Opera and I can access the Opera url with various browsers. I have a Linksys WRTS54GS router with DHCP turned on. I have a WAN IP from Comcast. Per DynDNS Updater all is well with the domain name pointing to the WAN address. I've got forwarding setup for 8840 & 80 which is open per PFPort Checker. When I use my DynDNS url I get errors such as "can't connect to remote server. So far I have added my PC IP with my DynDNS name in the host table. I can ping my PC IP with the 8840 port OK. I've got the Block Anonymous Internet Request turn off. I got the Filter Internet Nat turn on. I've go the Window XP service setting set for my PC name and 8840 I can ping 127.0.0.1 I can ping my local host But I when I add http://127.0.0.1 or http://localhost in my browser I get "can't connect to remote server. I do not have any static IP's in the router. What's my problem and how do I resolve the issues????? Sorry for the long message. DD |
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I would suggest you work through this guide on testing and port forwarding. Note too that you need to specify the port when you connect if you're not using port 80. |
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Well, the first thing I did was to add port:8840 to the domain name which got me into the Opera application page. Right now I have media player, file sharing, photo sharing besides the web server set up. I would then have to give a password to the visitor to access the web page or other applications. This seems a little odd to me to have to add a port number to the doman name. Of all the years of accessing web pages I have never had to add a port number. If this is what it is then this is what it is. I'd whether just give someone my www.xxx.xxx.xxx. i.e http://www.cnn.com....not http://www.cnn.com:8840. I'd would to have them just go directly to the web page not the application page. I will follow up on the documentation you suggested. It is working but not the way I imagined. Thanks for you feed back. I appreciate this as I have been wrestling with this for 3 days. DD |
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Well, there are default ports for everything, including web (HTTP). If you use those ports you don't have to specify them, since everything knows what they are. In your case since you're not using the default HTTP port of port 80 you have to tell the client what port you're using. Sites like CNN etc all use port 80, since that's the default and otherwise nobody would find them. One option you've got is to use a WebHop to allow a redirection from |