Forum OpenACS Q&A: Access from behind a home firewall.

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?

# listen on these ports
set httpport              80
set httpsport            443

# ns_info will try to guess these values based on
# your OS settings, but you may have to replace them
# with sane values if it guesses wrong!
#set hostname              [ns_info hostname]
set hostname        192.168.168.4
#set address                [ns_info address]
set address          192.168.168.4
set server              "labyrinth"
set db_name            $server
set servername          "PCS-SC Community"

Then you'll have to enable port forwarding for port 80 to your hostaddress, in my case port 80 is forwarded to 192.168.168.4 . To access the webserver from inside the lan I have to use the IP address 192.168.168.4 or set www.pcs-sc.com  to  192.168.168.4 in the hosts file found in my case c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc .

When people access your website from the Internet side with the IP assigned by the provider, the router will forward the port request to your webserver. I use TZO for Dynamic DNS and when you go to http://www.pcs-sc.com you get sent to the public 24.168.201.125, the router then forward so my internal 192.168.168.4 webserver.

Hope this helps...