How do I redirect web requests?

[joshwa]

Eg, my external ip address is :
82.42.131.178 (which is redirected by smoothwall to 192.168.0.3)

But my internal IP address
192.168.0.3

and inside the network if I go to a web browser, and type 192.168.0.3 I can see the hosted website on my webserver, but if I type in 82.42.131.178 I can't get to the website - is there anyway to tell my computer that when I put in the 82 address it should look at the 192 address instead?

Thanks

Josh

[Enverex]

I never worked that one out. If you use a domain though, you can do it.

What you do is you put the domain in your hosts file as so...

192.168.0.3 mydomain.com

And that way it only affects your computer and you can do things as normal. But afaik you cant use the other IP address as it is your external address.

NS

[Jonny M]

Some routers will support loopback, If you're running a Smoothwall box then there may be this option somewhere.

[joshwa]

Originally posted by NightShade737
I never worked that one out. If you use a domain though, you can do it.

What you do is you put the domain in your hosts file as so...

192.168.0.3 mydomain.com

And that way it only affects your computer and you can do things as normal. But afaik you cant use the other IP address as it is your external address.

NS

wow, cool, that works for joshwaller.tk which is neat, but i really could do with it working for the ip address too :/

I'll have to check through the smoothwall docs
i don't think smoothwall will do it :/

[eldren]

Hmm. In Smoothwall, you have enabled external access for port 80, and set up port forwarding from 80 to your PC's 80 (Or whatever you're running your webserver on), right? If it still doesn't work from your end, it's fine, loop-back (Or whatever) just isn't working/implemented (Doesn't work for me). Those on the outside world can still access your webserver, however (Again, personally tested). If you want to be absolutely sure your webserver can be accessed by the outside world, get a shell account somewhere and use lynx/links to browse to your site - or just get a friend to try it.