router routing itself
 

I have a router. I'm not quite sure the brand on it right now cause I'm not at my house, but its a Motorola. So when I setup port forwarding for port 80 so traffic goes to the internal address of 192.168.2.101 (which is my web server), I can no longer connect to my router. even from inside the network. It just stops working, then I can't even save that configuration fully cause its trying to route itself to my web server. Is there something I'm missing or is this router really confused?

I would think you could get to it from the lan side. I can see the issue from the wan side if you have that enabled and using port 80 to the web interface to the router. If the router supports it for the wan side and you need wan side access to the router then change the routers web interface port from 80 to 8080. Now you will probably need to do a factory reset on the router to return it to default settings. Then go into it and configure it back to your current network setup.

Brian