Some pointers please dyndns.org and apache

I registered a domain name with DYNDNS.org and this domain name is pointing
at my ip address.

I have installed Apache on Mandrake 9.2 and everything appears to be working
this side. I have followed the instruction from the dyndns support pages for
apache

I have looked in the router control panel and enabled port forwarding to
192.168.1.7

Everytime I type my domain name in to internet explorer it keeps on
bringning up my router control panel, so this proves that I am nearly there,
as I said for some reason my router is not forwarding me to 192.168.1.7

Has anyone else experienced this before, if so what pointers can you give
me.

Many Thanks

"Jasdf Dfssdf" <Jasonsc@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>I registered a domain name with DYNDNS.org and this domain name is pointing
> at my ip address.
>
> I have installed Apache on Mandrake 9.2 and everything appears to be
> working
> this side. I have followed the instruction from the dyndns support pages
> for
> apache
>
> I have looked in the router control panel and enabled port forwarding to
> 192.168.1.7
>
> Everytime I type my domain name in to internet explorer it keeps on
> bringning up my router control panel, so this proves that I am nearly
> there,
> as I said for some reason my router is not forwarding me to 192.168.1.7
>
> Has anyone else experienced this before, if so what pointers can you give
> me.
>
> Many Thanks
>
>

Not sure what brand of router you have, but it sounds like you have "remote
management" (or whatever it is called in your router) turned on. This may
be taking precedence over your port forwarding of port 80 to 192.168.1.7.
Try turning off remote management of your routing and try again.

Also, you could forward a different port than 80 to the local machine if you
need remote management of your router. However, you would then have to put
a colon and the port number after your domain name to get to the local web
server.

Hope this helps.

Create (or forward to) the port 2468 and use that instead of port 80, I had
the same problem on my linksys router.

but make sure you set Apache to listen in on 2468 instead of 80... ;-)

Don

"Jasdf Dfssdf" <Jasonsc@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:cmf6et$r18$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
> I registered a domain name with DYNDNS.org and this domain name is
pointing
> at my ip address.
>
> I have installed Apache on Mandrake 9.2 and everything appears to be
working
> this side. I have followed the instruction from the dyndns support pages
for
> apache
>
> I have looked in the router control panel and enabled port forwarding to
> 192.168.1.7
>
> Everytime I type my domain name in to internet explorer it keeps on
> bringning up my router control panel, so this proves that I am nearly
there,
> as I said for some reason my router is not forwarding me to 192.168.1.7
>
> Has anyone else experienced this before, if so what pointers can you give
> me.
>
> Many Thanks
>
>