I am having a port forwadring problem - new ground for me - was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction.
What works
I use MediaMonkey to manage my music library, and recently came accross Monkey Server (http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=42189) which is a an app that runs as a web server on your PC and allows you to access your MediaMonkey catalog remotely using a web browser.
When installed on the local machine, it works perfectly, and uses port 2233. The URL is simply http://<computername>:2233/
What doesn't:
As per the intent of the app, I am attempting to access Monkey Server from anywhere on the Internet. The 'over-simplified' instructions to do this are :
Its not working for me.
Forgetting about no-ip for now...what I did was this;
But nothing seems to work, I have tried:
-http://<default gateway address>:2233
-http://<routeraddress>:2233
-http://<computername>:2233
-http://<computerIPaddress>:2233
What am I missing?? How can I troubleshoot this further?
What works
I use MediaMonkey to manage my music library, and recently came accross Monkey Server (http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=42189) which is a an app that runs as a web server on your PC and allows you to access your MediaMonkey catalog remotely using a web browser.
When installed on the local machine, it works perfectly, and uses port 2233. The URL is simply http://<computername>:2233/
What doesn't:
As per the intent of the app, I am attempting to access Monkey Server from anywhere on the Internet. The 'over-simplified' instructions to do this are :
- Configure Monkey Server to use a specific port (the default is 2233)
- Configure your router to redirect incoming port 2233 requests to your PC's port 2233.
- Use http://<publicrouteraddress>:2233 and you should be able to access Monkey Server from anywhere on the Internet.
port forwarding is used to send the traffic on port :2233 from your routers LAN IP address to your servers lan IP address, this has nothing to do with the no-ip.org service. An example might be from 10.0.0.1:2233 (Router LAN IP) forwarded to 10.0.0.2:2233 (The internal IP of machine with Monkey Server)
The no-ip.org service is used to redirect traffic to your routers WAN IP or its internet IP address and is not essential for being able to access externally.
The no-ip.org service needs to know your external IP address of router to be
able to do this. You can then ccess your server using the no-ip.org domain name rather than the Routers WAN IP address. An example might be , your router has external ip of 203.203.23.203 so you could access your machine externally with the address http://203.203.23.203:2233 and if the port forwarding above has been configured you will access your monkey server externally. After setting up a no-ip.org account that redirects to your wan address you could use the addresss http://yourusername.no-ip.org:2233 to access the server externally (no-ip redirects the traffic from yourusername.no-ip.org to 203.203.23.203 for you so you don't need to remember the ip/
The no-ip.org service is used to redirect traffic to your routers WAN IP or its internet IP address and is not essential for being able to access externally.
The no-ip.org service needs to know your external IP address of router to be
able to do this. You can then ccess your server using the no-ip.org domain name rather than the Routers WAN IP address. An example might be , your router has external ip of 203.203.23.203 so you could access your machine externally with the address http://203.203.23.203:2233 and if the port forwarding above has been configured you will access your monkey server externally. After setting up a no-ip.org account that redirects to your wan address you could use the addresss http://yourusername.no-ip.org:2233 to access the server externally (no-ip redirects the traffic from yourusername.no-ip.org to 203.203.23.203 for you so you don't need to remember the ip/
Its not working for me.
Forgetting about no-ip for now...what I did was this;
- accessed my router (D-Link DIR-655) via my browser via http://<default gateway address>
- used Advanced Settings/Port forwarding, and selected the IP adress from the drop down - the one that is running Monkey Server), and specfied port 2233 (screen looks similar to this: http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Dlink/DIR-615/DIR-6154.jpg)
- Saved changes, rebooted router, and verified again the port forwarding was there and checked off.
But nothing seems to work, I have tried:
-http://<default gateway address>:2233
-http://<routeraddress>:2233
-http://<computername>:2233
-http://<computerIPaddress>:2233
What am I missing?? How can I troubleshoot this further?