Viewing a web server hosted on a server on the LAN - but seeing the modem/router instead
Philip Rhoades
phil at pricom.com.au
Thu Oct 29 11:58:10 UTC 2015
birger,
> From: birger <birger at birger.sh>
>
> This is off topic since the router is responsible here.
OK, but that is why I asked - I wasn't sure if it was Fedora networking
. .
> When you use fqdn you are probably hitting your routers public ip,
> right? You then use port forwarding to forward the requests to the
> internal server.
Right, that makes sense . .
> Sadly, many routers only do that port forwarding when
> you actually hit from the outside.
Why sadly? If my router was doing that I wouldn't have a problem . .
Thanks,
Phil.
> 29. okt. 2015 7.58 a.m. skrev Philip Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au>:
>>
>> People,
>>
>> Most of my domains are on cloud servers but a couple of less critical
>> ones I have hosted a server (192.168.1.10) on my LAN. The port
>> forwarding on the router is OK and people from outside see the web
>> sites
>> no problem. Although the way I have my networking set up seems to be
>> fine in all other respects, when I browse to the FQDN of one of the
>> LAN
>> Server-hosted web sites - from a workstation on the LAN, instead of
>> seeing the web site, I see the admin login screen for the modem /
>> router
>> (192.168.1.1).
>>
>> I am guessing there is something simple that will fix this problem but
>> my messing around with networking so far hasn't got me anywhere . .
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Phil.
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E-mail: phil at pricom.com.au
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