topic Re: Hosting a webserver from behind a router in Broadband

Hosting a webserver from behind a router

Studiosoft — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 12:29:36 GMT

I hope I have posed this question in the right place.

I have set up a nginx server on a spare machine at home. I am only using it for dev so the limited bandwidth I have isn't an issue. I can access the server remotely and I can access it via the internal IP address within the LAN. Is it possible to configure the router so I can access the server via the domain name from behind the router. I can use an external proxy to achieve this but it introduces all kinds of cross origin problems.

Thanks

Keith

Re: Hosting a webserver from behind a router

KeithFrench — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 13:35:43 GMT

Hi Keith,

No, you can't. The vast majority of TalkTalk routers consider traffic going out from a device to the internet & back into the router again (NAT Loopback) as a security risk and blocks it.

Re: Hosting a webserver from behind a router

Studiosoft — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 13:42:36 GMT

Thanks Keith, I thought as much, I can manage using the internal IP address for now but i just thought I would check rather than chase shadows for the rest of the day.