cant access my local web server with the external IP

Posted by TommyG on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by TommyG
Published on 2011-11-11T13:39:03Z Indexed on 2011/11/22 9:58 UTC
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I havent been able to find a solution to my particular problem.

I have a MAC which I set up as a web server and configured my router to forward to the local IP. When trying to access my site from outside, it does say "It works!", however, when I call a simple Hello World PHP script that I have, I am getting an error that the page could not be opened. I did enable PHP on my machine so thats not the problem.

I really have no idea how can I access - I followed so many tutorials and did everything correctly. My router is a Linksys WRT160N if it matters at all. In the port forwarding section, I selected to forward

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