[SOLVED]Lighttpd:cannot access website from outside network.

[dhoops116]

Apparently the problem was not any setup in either the router or computer, but rather my ISP, Adelphia, apparently they block port 80.

I recently Installed lighttpd and I am trying to connect to the server
outside of my network. My setup is as follows.

A cable modem going to a router. On the router I turned on all port
forwarding so it goes to my pc. I can ssh into my computer from outside
the network, but I cannot get ping replys and i cannot connect through a
pc from outside the network. However inside the network I can reach the
website I created.

Any ideas?

[c4]

If you can access your server from outside your network via ssh but not http, than it sounds like you are not forwarding the traffic on port 80 to your server. Are you using an ipaddress to access the webserver or are you using a domainname? Perhaps the name is not being resolved properly?
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[dhoops116]

I am forwarding all traffic to my server. I turned on port forwarding on all ports, so that it goes to my computer. I have tried both the name and ip address of my server. to no avail.

[dhoops116]

Update:

I turned on DMZ on my router. Now I can connect, however, when I try to bind the server to port 80 it does not work, but if I use 8080 for example it works properly. Any idea why?

Thanks

[robbyjo]

I tend to think that you probably has a program already listening to port 80. Try netstat -a to find out. HTH.