That's right, it's actually looking at the header and not where it's coming from. I should have known that.
I actually have webmin installed on the box, I forgot that I could manage the DNS through that, that will make things a whole lot easier. Thanks again for all your help Mike! Mike Knisely wrote: > > Yep... because you're still making the request to > http://www.mywebside.com/gallery... just like if you were connecting > from the WAN. > > The reason it isn't working is that your gallery is pointing at the FQDN > of your site. When you feed it the IP, apache has no trouble feeding > the default website, but CMS systems often have issues with that. > > If you're not comfortable with editing your BIND files, check out > Webmin. It's a pretty cool web GUI administration tool. > > Mike K. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: danodemano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 1:16 PM > To: efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Efw-user] Can't access local http server using public > URL/IP. > > > So then your DNS solution makes Gallery work correctly? That's what I'm > after really. I was more curious as to why it doesn't work I suppose. > I > just have to add a zone to my DNS (for the hostname) then point it to > the > private IP of the box. I'm going to play with then what I get home from > work this evening and see if I can get it working correctly....I'm going > to > have to dive back into my BIND manual as I can't remember how that all > works, it's been some time since I set the DNS up. Thanks for you help > Mike! > > Mike Knisely wrote: >> >> I'm in the same boat. My internal www server (running geeklog with a >> gallery plugin) was acting the same way. That's why I liked the >> internal DNS solution. You use the same URL and it just works. Why > try >> to break a firewall when you just need DNS to point you to the real >> server IP? >> >> If you are being sent outside, your connection is being NATed as it >> heads from the Green to the Red. It is then again sent through the > NAT >> process as it moves from the Red to the Orange (assuming the www > server >> is in a DMZ, but still a NAT if you're getting tossed back to Green). > >> >> If you've got the DNS server, why not just use it? I'd not suggest >> hacking at the hosts file on the machines or even in Endian. There's >> just no need, and if you ever change the IP of your www box, you have > to >> edit each hosts entry instead of changing just one DNS A record. >> >> Michael J. Knisely >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: danodemano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 12:14 PM >> To: efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [Efw-user] Can't access local http server using public >> URL/IP. >> >> >> I had actually thought about that to be honest. I run a separate DNS >> server >> that also happens to sit on the same box as the web server. This >> wouldn't >> be hard to do at all, but I thought that maybe there was a simpler way >> to do >> it. I could also hack the hosts file as the machines that need access >> are >> Windows machines. >> >> I will have to try this to see if it actually works. The problem that > I >> am >> having is that the web server hosts my photo gallery using Gallery, > the >> open >> source free PHP image gallery. Since it's specified the web address > of >> the >> server, it works just fine from outside but internally if I just go to >> the >> IP none of the pictures are displayed. >> >> Thanks for the response though, I appreciate it. I'm going to do a > bit >> more >> testing a digging in maybe in the mean time somebody will be able to >> offer >> up a different solution. Thanks! :) >> >> Mike Knisely wrote: >>> >>> The way I have dealt w/ this is to use an internal DNS server to >> redirect >>> my requests so they are not going out to come back in. >>> >>> If your Endian box is your DNS server, it is quite easy to do. Just >> go to >>> the Network tab and add a hosts entry for your machine. This way, >> when >>> you try to get to whatever the domain is, you will be given the >> private IP >>> when on your LAN. >>> >>> I realize that this is not an answer to your question... It's just >> how >>> I've solved this problem in the past. >>> >>> Michael J. Knisely >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> >>> From: danodemano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: Sun 11/16/2008 13:43 >>> To: efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net >>> Subject: [Efw-user] Can't access local http server using public >> URL/IP. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I'm not sure how to describe this but here we go. I run a web server >> that >>> sits behind my Endian firewall. The web server is on a private IP so >> all >>> port 80 traffic is forwarded from the WAN into it's private IP on the >> LAN. >>> I am able to access this server using it's private IP and from >> anywhere >>> outside my network using the public URL/IP of the Endian box. I am >> not, >>> however, able to get to it from withing the network when I use the >> public >>> URL/IP. The request simply times out. Is there a rule that I need > to >>> add/change to be able to allow this? I have a rule currently that >> allows >>> the GREEN interface access to everything on the RED but this doesn't >> seem >>> to >>> get it. I apologize if this has already been asked....but I was >> unable to >>> find anything relating to this. I should probably note that I am >> running >>> 2.2RC3. 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