Can't load my website from inside the network

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FcukThisGame · Post by **FcukThisGame** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 2:46 pm

I'm not sure if this is a DNS issue, an apache issue, or an iptables issue.

I own a domain which points to my gentoo box at home (which also functions as my router). Externally it loads fine, internally it won't load. I have to point to my internal IP address to get the page to load.

TL;DR my domain works from the outside but not the inside.

I can post whatever configs are deemed relevant. Just tell me which!

Thanks!

Inodoro_Pereyra · Post by **Inodoro_Pereyra** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 7:30 pm

Try adding the pair IP number - domain to an internal LAN box hosts file:

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echo "<LAN side IP number of your web server>  <domain.tld>  <host.domain.tld>" >> /etc/hosts

For example, if i would like to host google.com in my 192.168.0.15 box:

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echo "192.168.0.15    google.com    www.google.com"

If it works, the you have a lack of DNS resolution for your internal network, if it don't tell us more.

Cheer!

FcukThisGame · Post by **FcukThisGame** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 7:39 pm

<host.domain.tld>

I don't have it set up as www.domain.tld. Does apache set up the www subdomain by default?

EDIT: it seems like it does.

I'll have to check it when I get home from work. My laptop with remote access must have shut down

cach0rr0 · Post by **cach0rr0** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 6:03 am

is it that you can't connect to apache at all, or that you end up with some default landing page?

If you can't connect, suspect you need to something like:

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iptables -I FORWARD -s 192.168.1.80 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I FORWARD -d 192.168.1.80 -j ACCEPT

where 192.168.1.80 is the IP of your web server.

Also had to:

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echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

I have to do this on the host for my KVM guests (of which .80 is one) - for a while I just gave the damn things public IP's, finally set up 1:1 NAT the other day so my PS3 could talk to the servers ^_^