hey everyone !!!!!
I have configured apache 2.2 on my machine and been trying to access it through internet(using public ip)...
I have got a "shiro router" and forwarded the port 80 on it, and tried to access the server using h**p:\\my_public_ip:80, but all thats appearing is the router's configuration page(the same one that appears on 192.168.1.1).
Since the above method didn't work so i decided to forward a different port (port:200) and changed the listen port to "200" in httpd conf file, after which i was able to access the server using h**p:\\my_local_ip:200, but again no success with the public ip, it now says "unable to connect".

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note:alongwith ip forwarding i have made the following two changes (and i have no idea what these two settings are for )
1)allow incoming ping
2)DMZ (demilitarized zone)
both these were disabled before.....and yeah my router is NAT enabled...

Hi,

there should be somewhere a setting to tell the router to
accept incoming request from internet, and forward those
request to the ip of your PC

NAT works for connection from your PC to the external sites

neither ping nor DMZ are connected to this problem.

bye
giammy

maybe the router has enabled remote management on port 80..and instead of forwarding to the web server ...it opens it's own web interface.

I would have to agree with ddaemonunics , change apache back to :80 make sure port forwarding is going towards your server and change the remote management page to :8080

Regards,
JKZfixme

thxx guys for ur replies...
btw i wud like to ask one more quest...
Is there a way to check if my isp has blocked port 80??
And if :80 is blocked can i use a different port like :200 to access webserver frm outside by forwarding port :200 from my router and changing the listening port to :200 in httpd.conf????

i forwarded port :80 and :443 for Apache on my "shiro" router...
but when i try to check if port :80 is open from outside using "PFPortChecker" it generates this message:
"Could not test port 80 because some other application has that port locked.Please close any applications that may be using this port and try again"
though it shows port :80 open on UDP protocol.. :-?
Btw After this message i closed every application from task manager(antivirus,firefox etc) that may be using port 80 but again the same message appeared....
(1)Does that mean that port :80 is blocked by my ISP on TCP protocol??
but when i tried a different port checker "Simple port Checker" it shows that "80 is online and can be reached" on the right pane and the same message as "PFPortChecker" on the left pane???

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Is port :80 blocked by my isp on TCP or not???

ok thxx everyone!!!!
problem solved!!!!

aimseeker chances are your ISP is not blocking ports 80, 443, 21, 22, or 23. These are all very commonly used protocols. 80 is standard web traffic, 443 is secure web traffic, 21 is FTP, 22 is Secure Shell (SSH), and 23 is telnet.

@worm
yeh dude but they can block one sided(from outside network to inside network) traffic on port 80.