Port Forwarding

  • I have WordPress up and running with a site that I want to let other people see. Its not a production site, just one I’m working on for potential future use. I can access it inside my LAN by using the server ip address. But not from an outside site on the WAN.

    Anyway, the domain is on Godaddy, and since COX is my ISP I need to do a URL forward to my router on port 81. I port forward through my router to port 80 on my server. With a simple index.html in my root directory (/var/www/html) and using my router address and port 81 as the url everything works fine. But as soon as I move my WordPress site to that the root location, I get a site time out. I have added
    <Directory /myapp>
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
    </Directory>
    to my httpd.conf thinking that might be a cause, but it still doesn’t work. I have added my router address and port 81 to the wp-config.php
    and still no success.
    I have followed several threads on this topic, but none of the suggestions seem to work.

    Has anyone else had this problem and resolved it?

    Thanks.

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  • What router are you using ?

    Thread Starter ov10fac

    (@ov10fac)

    Untangle.

    Router is not the problem. I can port forward to a normal index.html on the apache server and it works fine. Only when I attempt to connect to a WP site that it times out. I tried to connect to the index.php page, it connects but only shows a blank screen. When I check the page source it too is blank.

    If I connect using the servers IP address from within the lan then everything works fine.

    So there is something going on with WP that is not liking the port forward.

    Thread Starter ov10fac

    (@ov10fac)

    Ok,

    I am doing a complete reinstall. So I’ll see if that works.

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