[awcopus]

I've got my Mac configured as a webserver, but it's behind a Netgear RP114 router on a cable modem and I can't seem to figure out how to make it so that visitors get to the site.

I am actually able to serve very easily if I run my cable internet access directly into my computer. I've got MySQL installed and PHP up and running and a cool blog package (wordpress). So I know the problem isn't that my ISP (Time Warner) is blocking port 80. Obviously, they aren't.

Problem is that when I telnet into my netgear's router menu, I'm really just sort of lost even though it feels like I should be able to do what I want to do (pass port 80 through to my webserver without the router's intimidating login window showing up) is a pretty straightforward affair.

My router is 192.168.0.1, and off of that base, my webserver has a static IP, 192.168.0.7.

Under menu 15, SUA Server Setup, I made a rule, I guess, that the start port and end port number "80" would correspond to my webserver IP address. Seemed like the right thing to do.

Under system maintenance, I disable the router's port 80 remote administration. This, at least, made it so that the router no longer asks for an admin login for its interface. But, the browser hangs instead of pushing through to my webserver.

Remote Node ? SUA Server Setup? Filter Rules?

Any insights you may have into what I need to do to get my router up and running, I would appreciate. Thanks in advance, guys.

[ghporter]

What you need to do is put your computer's IP in the "DMZ" of the router. This exposes the computer to the entire Internet (through the cable system) without any address translation. Of course that means that you have to be careful to pay attention to the machine in case baddies try to hurt it or otherwise mess with it, but that's just part of web administration.

Not sure how to locate the DMZ settings in your router, but the manual will have step by step instructions.

[aaanorton]

You could do the DMZ thing, but forwarding port 80 should work too. It sounds like your router is just confused... Is the firmware up to date?

[awcopus]

I was able to figure out how to pass port 80 through. But then encountered a more intractable problem.

From where I reside, on my LAN, my ability to see and interact with my webserver via its WAN IP is disabled (I suspect), but the contents of the webserver pages (html and PHP for blogging) MUST be configured using the WAN IP, making it (I think) impossible for me to simultaneously serve up web content to the world and to myself, on the same machine.

Any thoughts on this? I was wondering if I should pass through port 427, which is designated in the Firewall section of Preferences/Sharing as having something to do with web sharing.

Thanks for your feedback guys.

-Adam

[aaanorton]

Ya, that's a problem... I honestly don't know how to get around that, but that's not saying much as I am no pro in this area.
What about getting a free DNS redirect acct from someone like DYNDNS? Maybe you could point the redirect back to your own web server.