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April 17

Check if port forwarding is working

I have apache running on one of the computers in my home network which is behind a router. I can access websites hosted on that local computer from other computers in my home network. In order to make those websites also available to computers outside of my home network, I set up port forwarding in my router. As far as I understand it is as simple as adding the port number and local ip address (192...) of my apache server in the router admin panel (correct?). Is it possible to check from inside my local home network whether port forwarding is working? If so, how? I tried to enter the "WAN IP" displayed in my router into a browser in my home network, but received an "unable to connect" message. bamse (talk) 12:22, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Different routers handle that local-access-to-WAN differently, and even if it does work for you locally, that's not good evidence that it works for real visitors. So try a web-based system that reads your website - maybe http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ or Google Translate. Or access it via your cellphone browser (over the cellular network). -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 12:28, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply. Entering my router's ip in downforeveryoneorjustme gives me a "down/not down" answer if I "disable/enable" port forwarding, so probably it is working as expected. Still I don't trust it completely. Is there a way to actually see whether a webpage is displayed (or a ssh login if I forward that port) being on the local network? bamse (talk) 13:19, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Google Translate will do it. Just have it translate your page into another language. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 13:31, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If you would like, I could just try to access the site? Makes alot more sense that way. MrLittleIrish^(talk) 13:45, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proxy server 190.60.93.218 (talk) 14:14, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You can also use sites like http://canyouseeme.org/ to check if a port is open. KyuubiSeal (talk) 14:55, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

On the socket level search the web for something like online port scan (also good for finding if you have unintended ports open). On a web server level search for speed test web page, analyze web page, validate html and similar (also good for finding non-standard HTML, suggestions for speed improvements, etc). 88.112.59.31 (talk) 17:25, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Google translate helped. bamse (talk) 21:30, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

LUCOMS~1.EXE

I suspect LUCOMS~1.EXE of being the thing that largely, and sometimes entirely, shuts down my computer from 3:00 to 4:00 PM every day. If this thing has to run every day, is there some way to arrange for that to happen 12 hours later? Michael Hardy (talk) 20:48, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's surely configurable somewhere in Norton's settings (Google informs me it's part of Symantec's "Live Update" machinery)... or were you looking for specific advice on where exactly one is able to configure it? - Jarry1250 ^{[Deliberation needed]} 20:55, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea how I would go about configuring such a thing. Michael Hardy (talk) 17:32, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

But you do, like, have Norton installed? Because otherwise it could be something nasty. - Jarry1250 ^{[Deliberation needed]} 20:24, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I do have Norton installed. I don't understand the second part of your sentence. Do you mean that the software causing the problem might be something nasty? So how do I do the configuration? Michael Hardy (talk) 19:59, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I do have it installed. How do I configure it? Michael Hardy (talk) 18:20, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]