DYNDNS, AT&T Port Forwarding, and listening on other than 80
Posted: 21. June 2017 16:28I am using XAMPP with the dyndns services for an FTP server without any issues. I have the dyndns services for mycompany.dyndns.org pointing to my IP. I have my AT&T router port forwarding 20 and 21 to my laptop running XAMPP. Remote users can go to ftp://mycompany.dyndns.org and connect to the FTP service without any issues. I'm not having the same success with HTTP.
With HTTP, localhost works just fine, but http://mycompany.dyndns.org does not.
When I went to configure port forwarding of 80 to my laptop, the router warned me that this could disrupt my TV services. I cancelled the change. Instead, I created a custom service to forward port 8080 to my laptop. In the httpd.conf file, I changed listen to: Listen 80.8080 I left the server name at: ServerName localhost
http://localhost resolves just fine. However, http://localhost/:8080 gives me a 403 error "access forbidden". http://mycompany.serveftp.org simply times out.
I'm at a loss as to what to do next so that mycompany.dyndns.org routes to Apache running on XAMPP on my laptop. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
With HTTP, localhost works just fine, but http://mycompany.dyndns.org does not.
When I went to configure port forwarding of 80 to my laptop, the router warned me that this could disrupt my TV services. I cancelled the change. Instead, I created a custom service to forward port 8080 to my laptop. In the httpd.conf file, I changed listen to: Listen 80.8080 I left the server name at: ServerName localhost
http://localhost resolves just fine. However, http://localhost/:8080 gives me a 403 error "access forbidden". http://mycompany.serveftp.org simply times out.
I'm at a loss as to what to do next so that mycompany.dyndns.org routes to Apache running on XAMPP on my laptop. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Andrew