[Koha] Remote access to web interface

[Krsnendu dasa]

Thanks for the prompt replies.

The server with koha on it is at school. The school connects through a
DSL router and IPCOP.
The router has an external internet ip address which is set up with a
dyndns.org dynamic dns address.
The the internal ip address for the router is 192.168.1.1
The IPCOP external ip address is 192.168.1.2
The IPCOP internal ip address is 192.168.0.1

As an example let me explain how I use port forwarding to access the
webmin at school from my computer at home.

I type in https://myaddress.dyndns.org:10000 from my browser at home.
The router forwards port 10000 to the IPCOP machine.
IPCOP forwards port 10000 to the server and the webmin page comes up
on my browser so I can log in.

When I try the same thing with port 80 and port 8080 I get a message saying
"Network Error (tcp_error)

A communication error occurred: "Operation timed out"
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems
preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again
at a later time.
For assistance, contact your network support team."

When I access it from my laptop at school using the ip address of the
server it works fine.

Any idea what to do next?

2009/1/17 Doug Dearden <dearden at sarsf.org>
>
> >>> "Krsnendu dasa" <krsnendu108 at gmail.com> 1/16/2009 3:52:41 PM >>>
> Hi there. I have successfully installed Koha 3 on Hardy Heron.
> I can access both main and intranet pages from the local area network
> using
> the ip address of the server. (If someone can give me some tips how to
> access it by name rather than number from the lan that would be
> appreciated.)
>
> My difficulty now is accessing the web interfaces from home.
>
> I have port forwarding set up and it works fine for webmin forwarding
> to
> port 10000.
>
> However when I try to forward the ports 80 and 8080, no web page
> appears.
> Can anyone suggest where I look for a solution?
> Perhaps there is a setting in apache that says only allow access from
> the
> local network?  I am not sure.
> Perhaps there is something else in Virtualhosts that needs to be
> changed?
>
> Any tips greatly appreciated.
>
> Krsnendu dasa
>
>
>
> Hi Krsnendu,
>
> How is your LAN connected to the internet?  I'm not getting the whole
> picture from what you wrote.
>
> Regarding accessing by name instead of ip address, do some reading on
> DNS.
>
> As you can connect to Koha locally your Apache config and Virutalhosts
> are probably fine, this is more about how your network is set up and how
> it connects to the internet.
>
> Best,
>
> Doug