HTTP Management

Romell · #1 12-09-2008, 02:55 PM

Is there a way to set this to be able to access it from outside my lan? I tried forwarding the port on my router and I'm still unable to access it using my dns name outside of my lan. any thoughts? or is it not possible.

Thanks

**trevius** · #2 12-09-2008, 05:57 PM

You need to use your WAN IP address and port 9080 to access it. The WAN address is the address that your router gets from the ISP. You should be able to look at your router config to see the IP. It wouldn't be anything starting with 192.168.x.x (those are LAN IPs).

Alternatively, to make things easier, you could setup DDNS on your router. There are a few different sites that let you setup a DDNS account. The one I use is http://www.dyndns.com and it works very well. You can chose your domain name from a list of possible domains. So, you could set your domain name to be something like romell.gotdns.com and you would access it by putting this in your browser:

Code:

http://romell.gotdns.com:9080/

Setting up DDNS isn't too hard. You just sign up for the account on the site, then go to your router config in the DDNS section and select that you want to use DynDNS and add your username and password that you created on the dyndns site.

The benefits of doing this is because most ISPs give out dynamic IPs, so they could change at any time (even though most don't change too often these days). If the IP changes and you don't know the new IP, you wouldn't be able to reach your PC from remote locations. But, with DynDNS, your router tells the site anytime your IP changes, so it always knows what to direct your domain name to.

Romell · #3 12-09-2008, 07:20 PM

I set up the DDNS for my minilogin and tried to use my dyndns.org:9080 from my work computer and my Iphone and it doesn't seem to work. My webmin will work fine from either. Was curious if there was something I needed to configure on top of that.

**trevius** · #4 12-10-2008, 05:17 AM

The only other things are to make sure you have 9080 forwarded to your server from your router, and also make sure you have http management enabled. You have to enable it in your eqemu config file (it is disabled by default I think). If you can access it from your LAN, then it should be working. If not, then you have a configuration file issue. Maybe you changed the port in the config?

Romell · #5 12-17-2008, 02:59 PM

The first time i forwarded the port it didn't work, now it does lol. anyway thanks for the help trev, also are some of the options in this just broken because of updates? or were functions never implimented? things i find that dont work are delete petitions, kick player, links to the zone logs, and move zone, delete under account details and chat. maybe I just forgot to move a template but im not sure.

**trevius** · #6 12-17-2008, 05:57 PM

Alot of stuff was probably originally planned, but never implemented. It would be nice if more of those features worked. But, there are other tools that seem to work for doing more advanced stuff.