Can you access your SME using its local IP on the LAN and serve the webpages using a browser ?
If yes then the problem is not SME.
port forwarding only work from the outside or wan side of a router. Again you can not hit your sme with externalIP:whateverport from inside your lan... This is simply a limitation of NAT, it is impossible to do , see this thread https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/11262681/nat-port-forward-doesnt-work-inside-lan as an example. As long as you do not understand this, you will not be able to go further.
If you want to test your connection port forwarding you will have to do this from outside with your phone connection ( not connected with wifi on your lan of course) or from elsewhere. All test you do from inside will fail and end up in a loop.
I am no longer concerned about port forwarding from 80 from some other port, that is clearly not necessary. My ISP is not blocking port 80. Again, I have demonstrated that if I configure my gateway to open port 80 and direct it to my workstation on the LAN and test it with ShieldsUp, it is
open. If I configure my gateway to open port 80 and direct it to SME server on the LAN, then ShieldsUp shows it to be in stealth mode --
not open. My ISP is not blocking port 80.
For years now, I have accessed my website hosted on my LAN from the internet using both the URL and my DSL IP connection address. When I switched to another ISP and hooked up the same SME server to the LAN, opened up the HTTP port 80 and directed it to that SME server, I can no longer do this. This is not right. Something has changed. If I ping my IP connection address, I get a prompt reply. If I test the port forwarding to SME it is
not open. If I test port forwarding to some other machine on the LAN it is
open.
This will be the same with your domain name unless:
- your sme has the domain defined as local and act as dhcp for all your computer
- your router act as dhcp server for lan and is evolved to handle split dns and point the domain to your sme ( not probable)
- you defined your local sme ip as associated to your domain on all hosts files of all your computer
I can't understand what you are saying here, but here is some related information. My SME server is using a static address. I thought I would try changing that so it would use an address served up by the AT&T gateway. I tried going into admin from command line and I don't see the option to use an address from another DHCP. Does such an option exist? My gateway seems to suffer some problems from not being able to use the static address in configuring the firewall. I can use it once, but can not edit it or add to it having done so the first time. It only identifies the static address with a device name that it assigns to it. I can't edit firewall settings with the static address or remove it, I can only clear all the settings with a reset and start over.
Also, in my SME Server Manager, Domains (Just one domain) is set with the URL I use to access it from the internet and the DNS is set to "interenet domain server", not locally resolved. This is the way I understand that different domains are directed to different iBays. I tried setting it to "locally resolved" to see if that would fix it, it didn't.
But again from inside you wiill be able to access to you sme with port 80 only for webserver, unless you also define in the sever manager a port forward 8080 to 80 on localhost, which is for the moment as useless as creating on your modem router the forward of 8080 to 80 fo the lan ip of your sme.
The only step you should try from now are:
- as told by Janet, contact your ISP to have the level 2 support so they will be able to answer technical question rather than having somebody reading a script.
- only do a port forward on your modem router from 80 to 80 direct to the LAN IP of your SME, Then go outside of your lan, and try to connect from outside to your internet ip on port 80 with sme on and its ip being the same as given in the router for port forwarding.
None of that is necessary, my ISP is not blocking HTTP port 80.
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