Viewing a web server hosted on a server on the LAN - but seeing the modem/router instead

[Philip Rhoades]

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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