[nzlug] Apache not seen from Internet

[Guy Lowe]

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Stefan Schulz (Professional Web Solutions) wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I guess I am simply overlooking the obvious?!?
> I would like to open my server Kubuntu Feisty, Apache2 (192.168.0.200)
> for testing to the Internet.
> On my firewall/router with a static IP address I opened port 8080 to be
> forwarded to 192.168.0.200 port 80.
> I verified this with pcflank.com 's port scanner. It shows my port 8080
> on the firewall as open.
> Internally I can see the servers default website from different
> computers using 192.168.0.200 or 192.168.0.200:80 - so that is fine too.
> Here is apache's setting (for this site):
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>         ServerAdmin webmaster at localhost
>         DocumentRoot /somedir/
>         <Directory />
>                 Options FollowSymLinks
>                 AllowOverride None
>         </Directory>
>         <Directory /somedir/ >
>                 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>                 AllowOverride None
>                 Order allow,deny
>                 allow from all
>         </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> 
> But I can not get through from the Internet using
> http://<staticip>:8080/ all I get is connection timeout.
> Any ideas? Whats the best way of testing this?
> 
http://218-185-227-5-broadband.tpnet.co.nz:8080/ is working fine for
me from here - Apologies if you didn't send the last message from the
address you're having trouble with.

A cold beer says that your router isn't forwarding packets from the
local network according to your port forwarding rules, but rather just
dumping them on the router.

Guy.
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