Sharing over intenet

[Toni]

Hi, first hope I am not posting an orgument allready discussed.

I am finding dificulties in publishing a databse over the internet, while I can through the intranet. I am doing this with Instant Web Publishing.

I am using FileMaker 6, with it's own Web Companion plug-in.

My LAN has a Router which runs on a Win95 PC. I use WinRouter for the routing process. I have configured it to pass the requests to my PC. But when I type in the adress bar, my static public IP , my browser response that can't establish a connection to the server. It's worth mentioning I'm using port 5100 for the sharing, I can't use port 5003 because Web Companion says it has a conflict. On my router I have enabled both UDP and TCP protocolls.

So, what am I missing? what have i configured wrong?

Thanks in advance, Toni

[Wim Decorte]

If you can connect inside the LAN then it has to be a router config problem. Unless you're not specifying the port in the URL to connect. if you're not using the default HTTP port (80) then you do need to specify the port in your URL.

http://yourPublicIPaddress:5100

You can't use port 5003 because that's the port assigned to FM data traffic.

Normally you'd use port 80 or port 591 for web FM traffic. If you use other ports you may create problems with other services or applications.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers