I get my ADSL service from UKFSN and from the outside world my domain name is 84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net, I have my firewall set up so that HTTP requests get routed to my Slackware Linux box.
In addition I have www.isbd.ltd.uk at Just-The-Name with web forwarding set up so that it routes HTTP requests to my home Linux system.
Is there any way that I can set my home system so that URLs of the form http://www.isbd.ltd.uk/<something> will work from systems on the LAN behind the firewall? If it can be made to work for all systems that would be great but just the Linux box would be better than nothing. As it is it is quite difficult to be sure that when I post a URL (for an image I want to refer to in a mail for example) that it is correct.
As it is at the moment if I go to:- http://isbd.ltd.uk/myimages/toggle.JPG
The URL gets translated to:- http://84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net/myimages/toggle.JPG
which is correct, but I get a wierd error page which says:-
Object Not Found The requested URL '/myimages/toggle.JPG' was not found on the RomPager server.
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Maybe I've got the URL wrong but, if so, how do I diagnose it? There is nothing in the apache error log.
I have the same problem, the issue you are having is that your router doens't know how to route from the inside-out and back in again..nor should it.
What I do to get around this is add the FQDN to my /etc/hosts file pointing it at the local address of the server in question, it's a bit bodgy because really I should be running DNS (which if set up properly would get around all of this)
So for example my hosts file currently looks like
10.255.0.4 noisy 10.255.0.4 digimatic.plus.com 10.255.0.10 archie.clientaddress.com
Where noisy is my music server, digimatic.plus.com is the outside domain that resolves to my external IP address (and therefore the external name of my music server's web interface) and archie.clientaddress.com is a web server I am currently setting up for a client.
noisy is sort of redundant but it's quicker to type for ssh access etc so I tend to use it internally for access to the music server.
You may notice the slightly unusual address range...This is a side effect of dealing with lots of clients MS VPN's. In order for them to work properly I have to have a private address subnet that is different to everyone else.
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