When I up some app on my machine at localhost:3000/somecontroller. Is possible to turn public to world if I try mymachineip:3000/somecontroller ? Sorry if is a dumb question...
Rails apps default to listen on 0.0.0.0:3000, which really just means "listen on all interfaces, on port 3000". So yes, you should be able to access it from another machine via its IP address. (If you run a firewall or anything on your machine, though, you may need to open up the port).
You have to configure the firewall to allow access to your machine. Your router has a public IP. You can figure the public IP out, if you go to http://whatismyipaddress.com/, or so similar site.
Then you can configure your firewall to allow access to your machine. Open your router settings, and open a port to your local machine IP.
http://www.wikihow.com/Set-up-Port-Forwarding-on-a-Router
It's also a good idea to give the machine a static IP, bc the IP can change when the machine restarts.
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I've been trying to configure Node-RED running locally at http://localhost:1880 to run on a static IP address that I would configured via my router's "DHCP Static IP Configuration" so that Node-RED could be accessible within the entire LAN.
How would I go about changing the IP address that Node-RED is hosted on, cause I haven't seemed to find any resources for it.
Would love to know the exact approach of running Node-RED on a LAN via a router; like should the static IP address be assigned to a particular device with a specific MAC address or can Node-RED reside on the router itself.
By default Node-RED binds to 0.0.0.0 which is the shortcut to say bind to all available interfaces (the log says to access via http://localhost:1880 because this will always be available). You should find that if you know the IP address of the machine running Node-RED and you enter http://ip-address:1880 from another machine on your LAN it should connect to the Node-RED editor.
You can change this bind address in the settings.js file (found in the userDir which is logged early on when Node-RED starts and is by default in ~/.node-red on a Linux/Unix machine). You can uncomment the uiHost line and change the IP address to what ever the static IP address of your host machine is. Under 99.9% of circumstances you should not do this and just leave it as the default 0.0.0.0
As for how you set your device that is hosting Node-RED to have a fixed IP address, that will be entirely dependent on the type of router you have, but usual approach would be to set the routers built in DHCP server to just asign a static IP address to that device as identified by it's MAC address. This means that you do not need to change anything on the device.
It is unlikely you will be able (or want) to to run Node-RED actually on your router, most home (or enterprise) routers are specialist devices and running a programming environment like Node-RED on them is really not a good idea from a security point of view unless you 110% know what you are doing.
Speaking of security, make sure you enable adminAuth in your settings.js before setting up any port forwarding on the router to expose Node-RED to the outside world. An unsecured Node-RED editor is likely to be quickly scanned by something like Shodan and promptly ushttps://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/runtime/securing-node-reded to host Crypto mining or much worse. Read the following carefully https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/runtime/securing-node-red
I'm running a FTB Revelation server on my Synology-NAS and I can connect in the intranet, but when my friends or I want to connect with my public-ip, they can't connect.
A portforwading tester says, that the port is closed.
I'm using a fritzbox and my ports are opened.
What could be the problem?
I had this issue too. You probably need to call your Internet Provider and ask if you have a dedicated IP. Port forwarding for ipv4 only works with dedicated IPs.
You can use NGROK (https://ngrok.com/) to "bypass" port forwarding, but server's IP will change every time you restart NGROK, and you will not be able to see player's true IPs in the server (You will see, for example, 0:0:0:0:0:0:0 instead of 93.22.22.22)
I have created a VM which has a server running at localhost:8675/ which I had wanted to connect to my host machine at the same port for ease of understanding. I was following these to documents for information:
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html
http://www.howtogeek.com/122641/how-to-forward-ports-to-a-virtual-machine-and-use-it-as-a-server/
When I was in my VMWare Workstation, I clicked on my VM, then did: Edit > Virtual Network Editor. After that, enabled Change Settings which relaunched the window in admin mode. I clicked on the Row with Type NAT and external Connection NAT and in the VMNet Information with the NAT radio button pressed, I clicked the NAT Settings Button.
I said: Add... and then did:
Host: 8675
Type: TCP
VMIP: 127.0.0.1:8675
Description: Port Foward of 8675 from Host to VM.
It looks like everything is good. I say Ok and Apply in succession. It looked like it shut down nat and restarted some services.
I confirmed in the VM, the 127.0.0.1:8675 is correct.
In the HOST, I tried to go to: http://localhost:8675/ and it says: ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
I figured this was all I needed to do.
I was looking up some additional information and noticed that some people have had to configure firewalls. I wasnt sure if i needed to though, as I was thinking that the HOST and VM are all in 1 actual machine, it might be entirely self contained.
Is there a critical task I am missing?
I saw this post: https://superuser.com/questions/571196/port-forwarding-to-a-vmware-workstation-virtual-machine
which told me to just adjust it to bridged and use it that way. Does this solve the issue of connecting HOST / VM Issue.
I don't want to say this is the correct answer though as the question itself is particular to NAT, but this is a valid alternative answer that does work.
This is solves the base issue at hand, but not the question.
When you use NAT, the host system and the guest boxes have completely different IP addresses on their virtual subnet, so my guess is that when from the host system you try to connect to localhost:8675 you are actually trying to connect to port 8675 of the host and not of the guest. So don't use the localhost or 127.0.0.1 syntax, but discover the real IP address of the guest and use it.
If your guest is Windows use the ipconfig command, if Linux use ifconfig.
Probably you will also have to configure the firewall on the guest side.
EDIT:
Commenting the sentence "NAT: Used to share the host's IP address.": it probably refers to the IP address of the real ethernet adapter you have on your host and that is shared by host and guests to access the internet. That's not related to the way your host and guests communicate together. For example I use VMware Workstation to run a virtual Linux box in Windows. Selecting NAT, VMware creates a virtual subnet called VMnet8. In this subnet the virtual router has address 192.168.120.0, my Windows host is assigned a virtual ethernet adapter with address 192.168.120.1 and my Linux guest has got address 192.168.120.128. So when I want to access a Samba shared folder from Windows I type "net use * \192.168.120.128" in a Windows command prompt. When I want to access a Windows shared folder from Linux I type "sudo mount.cifs //192.168.120.1/path_to_shared_folder target_folder".
I believe you actually answered your question correctly as I was following it and achieved desired outcome.
IMHO, the error: ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED indicates that a firewall on your host OS or guest OS (your VM) or on both doesn't allow the communication through the given ports.
The easiest thing would be to try to disable firewalls on boths, your HOST and GUEST OS.
Not sure what are your OSes, but here is just a good guide for setting up firewall rules on Ubuntu
I have setup the Swann DVR Surveillance System. I am able to access the web client at 192.168.1.99:85 (static ip in internal LAN). I have port forwarded 85 packets to 192.168.1.99. But when I access my external ip eg xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:85 I get unable to connect error.
I checked if the port is open in an online tool and it says port 85 is open. HEre is my port forwarding page:
Please Help me. Thanks in advance
EDIT: I have tried changing ports to 89, 9001, 8080 and no luck..
Ive finally figured out what I was doing wrong from a friend. It seems there is something called NAT Loopback (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation#NAT_loopback) that allows you to access your public IP address from within your own network. Most routers have this feature disabled by default. And hence whenever you try to access your IP address the packets are dropped and you get the Host Unreachable ICMP packet.
Anyway to use this try to enable NAT Reflection or NAT Loopback on your router.
If you dont have that feature, you can test your system from outside the network and itll work just fine. Sorry for not reporting the answer sooner.
Yeah, same problem. As Steve Robinson said, you cannot always access your public IP from your NAT. Try running Apache and use your phone (turn off WiFi and turn on mobile data) to test if this is the case.
I have a Ruby on Rails application that I'm developing on my computer, which runs Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I'd like to be able to access it from a remote computer for testing purposes. I've no idea how to proceed. Do I need to set up port forwarding? Virtual hosts? Can anyone point me to an article/tutorial/whatever that has information about how to do this?
Thanks!
If you want to run it using the server script, you can have it listen to a specific IP address like:
script/server -b 192.168.1.5
Substitute your machine's IP address that is accessible over your network. Then other hosts can get to the Rails app via e.g. http://192.168.1.5:3000.
If you mean you're behind a firewall or NAT gateway, then the question of how people outside of your firewall/NAT can get to your machine is another question entirely... something that probably belongs on superuser.com.
The best way I've found is to use http://www.tunnlr.com.