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[tajmiester]

Your firewall/router should have a "port forwarding" [or similar] section on it.

Will standard home routers have port forwarding enabled or would I have to buy a new, more advanced one. After all most broadband providers don't allow much outbound on port 80, I doubt many consumer firewalls will have port forwarding functionality. Can you suggest any that can?

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[RegimentalPyro]

It might not be called that but it should be there. It's actually a way of running NAT in reverse as you are rewriting the destination address. Other things I have heard it called are

destination address rewriting
reverse proxying at the firewall
reverse NAT

If your broadband provider blocks incoming connections on port 80 then just move your webserver to another port and publish a modified URL.

[Don't click this link! It's just an example]
http://mydomain.org.uk:47105/

would redirect browsers to try port 47105 instead of the default of 80

Edited by RegimentalPyro, 03 December 2003 - 09:01 AM.