Apache Friends Support Forum

Xampp vers. 1.7.7
Windows 7 Home Prem

I set up Dynamic DNS to access a site I'm working on from an external location.
Everything seems to work fine for HTTPS, but fails for HTTP. Firewall and port forwarding seem to be in order with all port 80 requests going to my XAMPP server.

Could it be that my ISP is blocking incoming port 80 requests or am I just missing a config option?

yes, once happened to me, try locating direct page in your server something like http://yournameORip/folder/file.html
try it out

I tried going straight to the index.html, but with out any luck. I guess it's not a big deal to send it through 443, since it's just for testing and personal use. Just kind of odd.

Could it be that my ISP is blocking incoming port 80 requests

did you ask???

JonB, I noticed also some isp's won't allow you to access to something like http://YOUR-IP directly, but it worked for me if you calling streight the index.html or index.php, but? some ISP don't allow you also use http://yourdomain.dynamic.dns directly from the internet, assuming it is not FQDN (fully quality domain name) and you can't access it unless you know the indes file

sthrnynkee wrote:Could it be that my ISP is blocking incoming port 80 requests or am I just missing a config option?

Sounds precisely what is happening - cable users are more likely to be blocked.

I usually find out by doing a Google search for words similar to this example:
cox blocks port 80
Change cox for the ISP you want to check for - usually others will have had the same issue and there may be informative results - often quicker than contacting your ISP's support.

If you have residential Cox, I think they expressly forbid you to have mail/web servers, that sort of thing. If you want to do it, sign up for Cox Business. It costs more, but you get unlimited upload/downloads, no blocked ports, a great deal of leeway, a much better level of support, and the right to have all the servers you want.

You can also change the Listening port in the httpd.conf file from 80 to a different numbered port.

Hosting a web site on your home Apache server is not recommended if using XAMPP because of the very poor security it offers for anything other than developing on localhost.
Also you will experience very slow speeds due to the upload limits placed on home connections by your ISP - there are more secure production server suits out there.