[SOLVED] Apache redirecting problem

koiril · 06-30-2009, 03:20 PM

Hey All,

I'm having some troubles getting an application called "Gallery 2" working on my linux server. It's working for my internal network but not if I try to connect from a computer outside the network. My server is behind a regular dlink router. When I do try to connect to it from an outside computer it resolves my IP address properly but then gets automatically redirected to the internal IP address of my server. Any chance someone knows a fix for this? I'm not sure what all information you would need to diagnose this problem so I'll try to include some info I think you'd need. Let me know if anything else is needed:

I have:
-PHP5
-Apache2
-MySQL

Code:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 9.04
Release:        9.04
Codename:       jaunty

tekhead2 · 07-01-2009, 09:50 AM

If your able to reach the webpage internally then the issues most likely are with your routers setup. You will need to make sure you have a port-forward or port-trigger setup on the router. What model do you have? Typically you can do a port forward quite easily. You may also want to setup dyndns in the router as well so you can have a hostname to connect to instead of trying to figure out what your home IP address is. The port you will need to forward will probably be port 80.

koiril · 07-01-2009, 11:29 PM

Thanks for the reply! I have setup port forwarding and know it's working. The reason I know it's working is because when I try to connect to my dynamic ip hostname, which is my routers external ip, the computer resolves the IP properly but then the router or my server redirects the web page to my internal IP address.

blankreality · 07-10-2009, 02:40 PM

I had this exact same problem and didn't find any answers online. Good news is that the fix is simple. The issue is not with your server or router config, but with your Gallery2 config.

In your Gallery2 root folder, locate the config.php file and open in in a text editor. Towards the end of the file, you will find a line something like

Code:

$gallery->setConfig('baseUri', 'protocol://192.168.blah.blah/Gallery2/main.php');

This line seems to be automatically written with the most recent installers for Gallery2 and is overriding the Gallery's autodetection features.

Fix: Just delete that line.

It should work just fine after that.

Cheers,
-blankreality

koiril · 07-13-2009, 10:09 AM

Thanks! That did the trick