I'm doing this (Chrome Remote Debuggin): https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/remote-debugging
I'd like to be able to access localhost or any of my vhosts (via apache on my desktop) from my phone so that I can debug a local site.
Is there ANY way to do this?
Thanks so much!
Do I understand correctly that you are running Apache on a workstation and want to connect your phone to a website hosted on it?
Yes, that is possible. The simplest method is to join your phone to the same network (WiFi) as your workstation and connect your phone to http://IP-ADDRESS-OF-WORKSTATION. Then use the Remote Debugging as usual.
Alternatively, you need to configure your WiFi router to enable port forwarding. The basic idea is your WiFi router controls traffic between your private home network (where your workstation is) and the public Internet (where your phone is), and port forwarding allows inbound traffic from the Internet to be routed into your private network.
Here's the configuration page for my WiFi router. My workstation's private IP address is 192.168.1.5 and I'm running Apache on the default port 80. If my public IP address was 8.8.8.8 then I would enter http://8.8.8.8:3000 in my phone's browser, and the router would redirect the request to my workstation at 192.168.1.5:80.
In either setup, you'll need to find your workstation's private IP address (e.g., use "Open Network Preferences" from your WiFi status icon on Mac OS X). You can find your WiFi router's public IP address by just googling "my IP address" from your workstation.
Obviously the first method (placing your phone and workstation on the same network) is quite a bit simpler. Port forwarding can be tricky to debug, and the configuration is slightly different for every router. Do post follow-up questions if you get stuck somewhere.
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I have a windows 7 laptop and a phone, both connected to my home wifi network. I have a local site running on my IIS7 windows laptop. If I type localhost, I can see the default page.
The problem is that now I want to view that page on my phone. How can I get to it?
I tried
localhost:81
I tried getting my public ip, then putting :81 after, and it didn't work.
Anyone know how to do it?
Thanks
Your public IP address allows computers on the internet to connect to your router.
It won't work inside your local network.
You need to connect to the internal IP address of the computer itself – the one belonging to the network adapter connecting it to the router.
You can get this address from the ipconfig command, or the properties of the network adapter.
I want to create a TFTP server on my computer, and I found a program named TFTPD32 that can help me. But when I try to bind my local IP (192.168.X.X) to a public one as I see in a tutorial, it doesn't show as a possible choice in that program.
As far as I know, to make this to work you need to install a server OS like Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7 Ultimate is a client one.
Is there a way to configure Windows 7 Ultimate as a public server?
Or maybe I am doing something wrong?
P.S.: I am sorry for my bad English.
If you can get that working in a LAN environment, then the solution is what ElGalivan said - take a look at the NAT table in your router.
Typically you need to do NAT over the UDP port 69 to your sever LAN IP address.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation
Tftpd32 can only "bind" to IP addresses available to the Windows OS where Tftpd32 runs.
In the very unusual case that your host is directly attached to a public IP Tftpd32 sure will have that public IP available for binding.
In a more normal case your host will be behind a router/NAT etc then your host will only have private IPs (192.168.x.x) available. In this case you should forward certain IP ports in your router in order to let exterior users reaching your server services.
But please consider; you should never do this with TFTP; TFTP is a protocol not meant for Internet traffic. It is used in the early stages of PXE booting strategies in LANs (Local Area Networks).
I have a high speed cable internet connection at home. I have D-link router, and I connect 2 computers, one is a desktop running Windows XP, the other is a laptop running Windows 7. I am perfectly able to use internet on both computers.
Now I want to host my personal web site from my home computer. I have already built the site that is running on my home network. Now I want to make it accessible from internet. I did all the procedures to open the appropriate ports on my router, allow incoming connections, and port forwarding setup, using the router's guide : http://www.dlink.com/-/media/Consumer_Products/DIR/DIR%20826L/Manual/DIR_826L_MANUAL_EN_UK.pdf .
However I am still not able to see my web site from public internet.
When I try to go to my site using my local IP address (192.168.0.103) or computer name, the site is loaded on other home computer, but when I try the same using my public IP address (found with "what is my ip" on google search), I get "Page cannot be loaded" error.
Can someone please help me telling what I am doing wrong, and how the problem can be fixed?
Thanks in advance.
Are you attempting to hit your WAN IPaddress from inside your house, aka, on the lan that the WAN would hit? It could be NAT Reflection/lack thereof getting in your way. Make sure you're trying to hit your WAN IP from a network outside of your local network. If you have a phone, turn off wifi, and use your phone.
Besides that, you've listed all of the basic steps necessary. Should the above not be the problem, I would start by checking your PCs firewall. In particular on Windows 7 checking to make sure you click real hard on that "public networks" button. Then just try and ping port 80, not load the webpage. If you can't ping, it suggests configuration issues with your router/connection. If you can, there's just some configuration that's effed up with your webserver.
I googled, followed all the instructions but still stuck, and unable to create a home ftp server.
My internet is from dsl modem -> vonage router -> wifi router
FileZilla server ip is 127.0.0.1 and it works fine when tried from command prompt. But I need it to be accessible from outside.
I enabled ftp on wifi router's web settings page using virtual server setting.
I am stuck at this point, I don't know what else to do further. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Also, if you are planning on accessing your server remotely, (not in your network) you will have to enable port forwarding on your router. (Use the ip address of the machine running the server and use port 21) Otherwise, you only be able to connect while in your LAN.
This pretty much summarizes your needs(via lifehacker.com)
If you're FTP'ing across your home
network (like from your upstairs PC to
your bedroom PC), you can reach the
server by using its internal network
address (most likely something like
192.168.xx.xx.) From the command line, type ipconfig to see what that address
is. If you want to log into your FTP
server over the internet, set up a
memorable URL for it and allow
connections from outside your network.
To do so, check out how to assign a
domain name to your home server and
how to access your home server behind
a router and firewall.
Original Article
How to assign a domain name to your home server
How to access a server behind a router and firewall
You need to be able to access your internal network from the internet. Consider using a service like dynDNS if your router supports it.
I tried putting my IP from whatismyip.com in the urlbase of Bugzilla but it did not work. I wasn't able to create a new account for my team mate, and he wasnt able to access the server by typing the my ip address in his browse. And surely, when I connect again, my IP address will change. Do we have to buy a www address to host Bugzilla?
You can setup a dynamic dns service, for example via http://www.dyndns.com or http://www.no-ip.com or http://freedns.afraid.org to solve the changing ip problem without buying a domain (or buying a domain as well, but it's not a requirement).
But the real problem is that your team mate cannot access the server via the current IP address which points to either a misconfiguration of the webserver (listening only on localhost?), to a firewall in between, or most likely, that port forwarding isn't set up in your router for requests coming to your external IP address to be forwarded to the machine where you have Bugzilla set up. Additionally, you must set the urlbase to your local IP address, not to the external IP address, as blak3r says.
Check http://www.portforward.com for instructions on how to do port forwarding. But don't forget that everything mentioned has to be working:
Web server listening to outside requests: This can be tested from the same internal network via the local network IP address (what you see typing in a command line console ipconfig in Windows and ifconfig in Linux). If you can connect from a different machine on the same network via the local IP address, this is solved.
Firewalls (in router and the webserver machine) accepting connections to the web server port: For firewalls in the web server, the same test as above covers it.
Port forwarding so the router forwards the requests received on the web server port to the web server machine: This gets tested in the same way as firewalls in the router, that is, you must have your friend (or yourself from the house of your friend) try to connect to the dyn dns name set up or to the external IP as reported by whatsmyip.org.
This is all assuming your test mate is not on your same network, if he is, just using the local IP address (shown via ipconfig or ifconfig) instead of the external IP address and making sure the first step is covered (web server listening to outside requests) should be enough and nothing else is needed!
You most likely do not have your port 80 forwarded to your machine which is the reason he cannot connect when using the IP that was returned from whatismyip.com.
Assuming you're on a windows box... do
Start->Run->cmd then type
ipconfig
If your address starts with 192...* or 10...* this is your Local Area Network (LAN) IP. If this is the case, then your isp provided you with a router. Look for a setting called port forwarding or "application setting" which allows you to forward all incoming traffic on your router to a particular IP address. Go into your router's configuration settings and make sure port 80 (and maybe 443 if you're using ssl are forwarded to your local ip).
The other problem you mentioned is you do not have a static IP. This is a common problem and no you do not need to buy an address. There are several sites which can provide you a free dynamic dns host. Try no-ip.org.