RT-AC86U cannot port forward non standard HTTPS port

[Dave Edwards]

Successfully installed lighttpd and nextcloud on rt-ac86u.

Using DDNS, works fine on LAN (http and https) but, away from home, can only get it to work with http on WAN using port forwarding as you'd expect.

I did same for my https port, but without success. Connection timesout eventually.
If I disable the Firewall, and use exact same url then it works.

I'm relative novice so am I missing something obvious? My understanding is that I should just need to add a port forward rule. In my case I'm setting

Port Range: 8418
local ip: 192.168.1.1
local port: 8418
Protocol: Both

Incidentally , I can access access the internal services , admin console, aicloud over the WAN with https fine. OpenVPN server works but I don't want to restrict myself for that for nextcloud. I have two instances of lighttpd , to avoid conflict with the inbuilt one (i just renamed second one to lighthttpd2). As I said, this is working on the LAN no problem, and also on the WAN when using http (which I don't want as its primarily for next cloud access).

To a novice like myself, it looks like port forwarding SSL does not work.

Hoping for words of wisdom. Thanks in advance.

 

[Dave Edwards]

Port forwarding wasn't the issue although observations when I disabled firewall confused me. I simplified the lighttpd.conf and just enabled ssl for the port 81. Tried from phone connection and worked. Will try from work tomorrow but think I was overthinking this one.