Forum OpenACS Q&A: External Access through Home Router, 4.5 to 4.6

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1: External Access through Home Router, 4.5 to 4.6
Posted by John Luong on 07/23/03 08:43 PM
Greetings,

I am having a problem with my setup.  I had been running OpenACS 4.5 and everything was running well, but when I changed to OpenACS 4.6, everything broke.

I am running a Netgear RP114 with "virtual server" pointed at port 8000.  From the outside world, I have a regular IP address (1.2.3.4) and locally, the machine is known as 192.168.0.2.  In my AOLServer configuration, I have:

set hostname 192.168.0.2
set address 192.168.0.2

When I try to assign the hostname/address, it can't pickup the regular address (1.2.3.4).

I am assuming something has changed in OpenACS, but I am unsure.  Any tips?

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2: Re: External Access through Home Router, 4.5 to 4.6 (response to 1)
Posted by C. R. Oldham on 07/23/03 08:48 PM
There used to be a parameter "ForceHostP" that issued a redirect to the canonical hostname/ip address if the user hit the site with another hostname or IP.  Did that somehow get turned on for you?  If so, it should be turned off.
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3: Re: External Access through Home Router, 4.5 to 4.6 (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 07/23/03 09:20 PM
I've been doing this at home without problem using the port forwarding features of my Netgear router.
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4: Re: External Access through Home Router, 4.5 to 4.6 (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 07/23/03 09:38 PM
John,

It is ver likely the ForceHostP parameter has been set. Try accessing the site from inside your network and turning off this setting. I believe it is under ACS Kernel.

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5: Re: External Access through Home Router, 4.5 to 4.6 (response to 1)
Posted by John Luong on 07/24/03 04:50 PM
Thanks to everybody who replied.  It was the ForceHostP parameter.