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janipewter · 27-11-2006, 16:43

Hi, welcome to the forum.

To simplify things greatly, I'd suggest changing your webserver to run on port 80.

I'll start with the port forwarding. If your webserver is running on port 80 of a machine with the LAN IP of 192.168.1.2 (you can find out by going Start->Run->ipconfig), you will need to forward port 80 to that IP address. This is done by entering the router setup page and going to Port Forwarding (also called Virtual Server in some routers) and adding a new rule (or 'port forward'). You should only need to enter the LAN IP and port, although it may ask you for additional information such as name for the rule.

As for being presented with the router admin page when trying to access your webserver, that's because you have remote management enabled on your router. I suggest you turn it off as a security measure, since you most likely won't ever require it.

Last of all DYNDNS is just dynamic dns - it assigns a domain name to an IP address and can be constantly updated by running a DYNDNS client on the server computer, but this is only helpful if your IP changes regularly, which it won't if you're on Telewest or NTL.

27-11-2006, 16:43	#2
janipewter Inactive Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Plymouth Age: 36 Services: Sky HD Multiroom, VM XL Phone, VM XXL BB Posts: 654	Re: WR214E port forwarding Hi, welcome to the forum. To simplify things greatly, I'd suggest changing your webserver to run on port 80. I'll start with the port forwarding. If your webserver is running on port 80 of a machine with the LAN IP of 192.168.1.2 (you can find out by going Start->Run->ipconfig), you will need to forward port 80 to that IP address. This is done by entering the router setup page and going to Port Forwarding (also called Virtual Server in some routers) and adding a new rule (or 'port forward'). You should only need to enter the LAN IP and port, although it may ask you for additional information such as name for the rule. As for being presented with the router admin page when trying to access your webserver, that's because you have remote management enabled on your router. I suggest you turn it off as a security measure, since you most likely won't ever require it. Last of all DYNDNS is just dynamic dns - it assigns a domain name to an IP address and can be constantly updated by running a DYNDNS client on the server computer, but this is only helpful if your IP changes regularly, which it won't if you're on Telewest or NTL.