topic Re: Why isnt my port forwarding working? in Broadband & Landline

Why isnt my port forwarding working?

Knight_of_Cups — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 18:23:22 GMT

First of all I'm using the EE smart hub plus.

I'm trying to open port 80 so I can expose my local web server to the internet and I'm following the procedure of going to advanced settings > firewall > portforwarding then from there I am entering the IP address of the machine to forward the connections to as seen in this screenshot. I then go to https://canyouseeme.org/ to verify if the port is open and unfortunately it never is. Is there something I am missing? Any help will be greatly appreciated. thanks

Re: Why isnt my port forwarding working?

JimM11 — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:13:34 GMT

@Knight_of_Cups Are you http to the server of https, different ports will be required.

Re: Why isnt my port forwarding working?

Knight_of_Cups — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:28:49 GMT

hello Jimm11, thanks for the reply.

I am using Apache2 on Kali Linux which uses port 80. I am fairly new to port forwarding, this is the first time I am doing it and have followed multiple guides online which all do it the same way. Is there any information that I can screenshot for you so you can have a better understanding of my setup too see if there are any misconfigurations?

thanks!

Re: Why isnt my port forwarding working?

JimM11 — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:45:05 GMT

@Knight_of_Cups 31 Jan 2018 · By default, Apache web server is instructed to listen for incoming connection and bind on port 80. If you opt for the TLS configuration, the server will listen for secure connections on port 443.

Enable Port 80 and 443 on Linux

To open a port on Linux, you first need to check open ports using netstat or ss command as showing below:

netstat -lntu OR

ss -lntu

After testing opened ports, use the below commands to allow TCP connections. Here, we have taken port-80, for example.

netstat -na | grep :80

ss -na | grep :80

Re: Why isnt my port forwarding working?

Knight_of_Cups — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 22:51:18 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion I will try that a soon as I can. However, when port forwarding on my routers admin page shouldn't I be able to see it open on https://canyouseeme.org/ does that mean that I don't have to actually do anything in my routers admin page?

If you have the time, would you be able to tell me the steps involved in port forwarding so I can make sure i'm doing it correctly? 🙂 i really appreciate your time !