I've been trying to port forward on my router for the last couple days with little success. I just realized that my IP is not in fact static as it is supposed to be, would this cause ports to show as closed?
Not of course.
You can open ports on your firewall.
The problem is that your ip will change and someone to find you again needs the new one. Find your new one there http://whatismyipaddress.com/
You can work with a dns manager like http://www.noip.com/ to have a dns name.
Also the problem with the firewall ports is that your computer will change your IPV4 address and then you must edit your port configs again. Go to run->cmd->write ipconfig and see that your ip is different now.
No, if you setup port forwarding, it will work regardless of what your external IP address is and will remain in place even if your external IP address changes. In other words, traffic will be forwarded to the internal IP address on port you specify, even if the external IP address changes.
Now, the trick is going to be finding out your external IP address when you are working remotely. This is one creative way:
http://lifehacker.com/5737187/use-dropbox-to-find-the-ip-address-of-your-remote-computers
If you're having other issues, try looking into the firewall settings of your computer.
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My isp gave me a shared IP as usual. I asked them to give me a dedicated IP, but they said there are no dedicated ip packages. I read some articles about this, some people said it is possible to forward port on a shared IP. My ISP blocks every port possible.
I tried general port forwarding,, but it didn't work. Is it actually possible to port forward a shared ip?,, If it is, then how to do that? OR if every port is blocked, then how do the other applications work?
My friend wanted to connect to my computer using Remote Desktop Connection. But the problem is I am confused what my Ip address is.
My computer is connected to the internet via router via broadband internet network. My ip address is dynamic.
Here, my main purpose is not only the remote connection but also learning how dynamic ip connect to another pc.
I searched for ip address on Google. They show me an ip address. But I think it is not mine, it's related with the router or broadband network. I also find a WAN ip (it is different from that i found on google) on router settings. It did't work.
I used Team Viewer. It worked perfectly. But I want to do that manually because I am going to make a multiplayer game on GM8.
It will helpful if someone explain about ip and port forwarding.
Teamviewer is a great tool, but uses different techniques than what you plan to do. Teamviewer always uses an outgoing connection and use a mediator on the Internet to connect you and the other PC.
You should ask your Internet provider if he technically enables you to be reachable from the outside Internet. Often this is not possible at all, even if you configure your router the correct way.
When you ask this you can ask him if you have a static IP.
It seems you are not aware of basics of IP networking, so I'd strongly advise against trying this on your router as wrong settings would render it useless. But here's for your information how port forwarding and IP Address and dynamic DNS can be used to solve your problem.
Basically your ISP is likely to give you a router having an IP address. If this IP address is a global IP address, it is possible to connect to this IP from outside. How do you find out whether your IP address is global? Look for your WAN IP address setting. If it is in 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x range, it's unlikely to be global and in that case it might not be possible to connect to your computer from outside - without help of a third server (some kind of a registration server, where you connect and register your application). The Registration server would determine your globally visible IP address and then convey it to another Application who is interested in connecting to it. This is somewhat complicated to make it work (but if you intend to make a game - this is something you'd have to do regardless). This is mostly how software like TeamViewer would work.
If you have a global IP address - it means it can technically be reached from anywhere in the world. In that case you could use port forwarding to make things work for you. Port forwarding works basically as follows - You expose a certain port (on TCP) to external world - say 8000 and then you make a setting like following on your router.
<TCP>-<RouterIP>-8000 --> <TCP>-<Your LAN IP><Your application Port>
(You can find you lan ip using ipconfig on windows or ifconfig on Linux).
Now all connections coming to port 8000 would be directed to your application. You might want to do it on UDP as well and the protocol above would change. That is how you 'open' a few ports to be accessible from outside, configure them on your router and then run corresponding applications on your network.
There's another thing called dynamic DNS, where the IP address you use if it is dynamic (and global) can be registered with a Dynamic DNS server so that you don't have to know and remember the current WAN IP Address. But that can be for later.
Hope that helps.
I have windows 8 host and i have installed ubuntu 14.10 server as a virtual machine in vmware. i have installed LAMP server and i am trying to host a website from it. i have created a virtual host. my website is accessible in the host machine when i go to the address 192.168.0.106.
my router info:
LAN
IP Address :192.168.0.1
INTERNET
IP Address :10.30.XXX.XXX
"what is my ip" in google: 113.XXX.XXX.XXX
how do i make my website accessible from the internet ? I know it is a dumb question, but i tried searching everywhere and could not get the solution.
Since you say that you can connect to the site from the host machine, it does not matter that it is in a VM.
You say that you can connect to your site via: 192.168.0.106 on the LAN. You need to forward connections to your WAN address (113.193.56.198) to your LAN address (192.168.0.106). You can do this in most router settings in a section called Port forwarding. Use port 80 if you're hitting the LAN IP from a browser and you don't have to add a port after the address like http:\\192.168.0.106:1234. Otherwise, use whatever port you like.
Once you get that working, it is a good idea to use a dynamic DNS service, which will connect your IP to a domain name and update the connection whenever your WAN IP changes. This way, instead of using the WAN IP in a browser, you can use your domain name and it should always work. But that's not your first problem. First get it working with the WAN IP by itself. Once you've got that working, get some DynDNS.
EDIT
If you think it should be working but can't figure out why it isn't, use a tool like nmap/zenmap to scan your WAN and LAN IPs. That will help you diagnose the problem.
A DynDNS should do the job!
It will automatically renew your dynamic ip address. All you need is; a tool that runs on your server with website.
Search for it on google, and you'll find a solution. Btw: there are, Free and paid solutions.
EDIT: by the way, your router requires additionally some port forwarding to make your website accessible from outside. Even with the DynDNS stuff installed.
Just to give you some indications.
I installed Veency Server on my old Iphone 3GS. I can connect to it from my other devices in local network, using its 192.168.2.xxx adress, but i cant connect from another network. I know that my router uses NAT so i tried port forwarding for ports 5500,5900 and 5800, then i tried to forward all ports in range 0:7000 but none of them seemed to work. What can i do ?
Thanks a million in advance.
Shouldn't be too complicated.
Set a DHCP reservation in your router for the device.
Forward the VNC port (Usually 5900) to the IP you set.
If you don't have a static external IP, get something like No-IP or DynDNS so you can have an unchanging URL to connect to.
That's about it, it's no different than making any other service external.
You should know that this will not be secure, and very easy for a man in the middle attack to happen.
Before you say that it is a dupe, this is not the same as this, this, this or this.
My question is how do you do it globally.
For instance, consider this. I have EasyPHP running in my computer. At present my ip address (global) is 223.231.178.118
Now, let's say there is someone else (maybe in a different country altogether) who wants to access my ip (223.231.178.118). I do know how to access 192.168.x.x from the same network. I just want to know how you can do this globally, if possible.
P.S 1 : The computer running EasyPHP is behind a router.
P.S 2 : My IP (local IP is, but global one is not) is not static. But let us assume the person who wants to access my localhost does know my Dynamic IP. For example, let us assume I tell the person who wants to access my localhost is my friend and I tell him over phone what my IP is.
You can use tools just like ngrok or Forward
more tools are in this post Accessing localhost From Anywhere
Your local IP address "192.168.x.x" is only known to your router and unknown to everyone outside your LAN. The global IP address (223.231.178.118 in your example) is the global address of your router.
To be able to access the EasyPHP server on your local computer you need to forward the corresponding port (for http webservers the default is 80 but it might be different for EasyPHP) from your router to your local IP. You need to check your routers manual on how to do this.
After you have done that you can just tell the person who wants to access your local computer the global ip address of your router and he will see your EasyPHP response by browsing to that global address.