HELP!!!! cant get to HFS through the internet!!!!

[foxhound.sldsnk]

Ive tried port forwarding and a bunch of stuff w/ my NETGEAR WGR614 v4 router, but i must be doing somthing wrong. anyone wanna walk me through this??

[Anonymous]

Did you check out this site....
http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm

[ANTS]

What exactly happens when you go to the address?

Does it work localy?

Make sure you have forwared ports on your router and\or firewall, stoped the HFS server, typed in the port you open in HFS and go to the address such as http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:port

[~GeeS~]

Ok, let's try to figure things out:

1. i googled netgears support page "NETGEAR WGR614 v4"and got
http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101145.asp with detailed instructions for portforwarding on this specific router. But probably you've seen this page already.

2. to keep things simple, start HFS "ON" on port 80 and enter 127.0.0.1 into your favorite browser (hopefully Opera  :roll:   ). This will work, even if you are disconnected from your router, because 127.0.0.1 is the standard IP adress of your machine where HFS is running on. You got your site in the browser? OK.

3. Make sure your machine is connected to your router and find out which IP adress is assigned to your machine by the router. Should be something like 192.168.0.2, the router IP is probably 192.168.0.1 . Check HFS by entering the LAN IP of your machine into your browser: 192.168.0.2 or whatever the assigned adress is. Does it work? OK.

4. Enter the IP adress of your router in your browser: 192.168.0.1 and the configuration menu of your router should appear. (REMARK: Make sure to secure your router with an unique username and password, never use the defaults! Some routers can be approached from the internet by connecting to IP:8080)

5. Follow the instructions of Netgears site: Advanced>Portforwarding:
Make sure to enter port 80 (start and end) and the correct IP of the machine where HFS is running! Make sure to have port 80 forwarded only once for all machines! Name it HTTP or HFS or whatever... Make sure the router saves the new configuration, maybe you have to save and restart?

6. The final test: find out what the IP of your WAN is (the internet outside IP) or your URL. Put it in your browser. Does it work? No ... don't panic:
your router firewall might intercept; at least mine did ...
go to www.guardster.com and enter the adress in their free proxy, wait...
 IT should work ... or there is something wrong with your router or your provider is blocking calls to port 80 (Are you allowed to have services running?
Good luck!
 
In case you have a dynamically assigned IP adress, you can fix your url with f.e. www.dyndns.org for free and follow the instructions there.

[~GeeS~]

The instructions above should work for each type of router. Portforwarding is also called Nat or NAPT (Network Adress Translating). Google for the support pages of your router brand and type.

Important: If you forward more than one port to a router, they must have different port numbers! Make sure your router accepts all IP numbers from the WAN; for some models you have to enter 0.0.0.0  in that case besides the LAN IP number of the machine the service is running on.

[foxhound.sldsnk]

thanks for all the help, i finally got it working.. it was somthing w/ the TCP and UDP.. i dont really know how i fixed it, but i just changed random things in my router settings and finally got it to work

[Amz]

:eek: hi foxhound i have the same router
could u tell me exactly what u did as i am haviing a lot of problems. Icannot connect through the internet thanks in advance AMZ.

[~GeeS~]

In order to check your site on the internet, you can also use google's translation proxy service.

First check if you are connected http://216.239.39.104 at all and only then goto:

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=&u=http://yourIP:portORsitename:port (replace accordingly  :!: )

Works for all languages, because I stripped the language operator after "hl=". Login is not supported, but much faster than the guardster proxy and without the ad decorations on top of the page. And ofcourse also for other sites than your own.  

Rejetto: you already used 216.239.39.104 (always up!) for the Selftest, why not use proxy command to show the page?

[ra2warroom]

number 3 doesn't work, I tried port forwarding and everything else I could think of

[rejetto]

Rejetto: you already used 216.239.39.104 (always up!) for the Selftest, why not use proxy command to show the page?

for what purpose?

[~GeeS~]

for what purpose?

instead of saying that HFS is working, it would show the page as it would be seen from the internet.
Some routers (like mine) don't allow testing HFS from the serverside, even if it's working fine (selftest gives an error message).
For that reason I test my HFS thru Google with http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=&u=http://myexternalIP:portORmysitename:port (but doesn't work for password protected pages).

So in fact I don't need the HFS selftest, but because HFS already calls Google for the test, I thought that in that case it would be more convincing to show the page instead of only saying that the connection to the internet is OK.

[rejetto]

it is interesting
thank you

[guestt]

works like a charm!

it automatically finds out the port!!

thanks!