To host. or not

[grandpa]

I am close to my wits end (admittedly a short drive these days) and hoping to find some guidance here.

The concern that I work for is a small 501(3)(C) located in the city, which is planning to relocate operations to another nearby county. My idea is to set up a WAMP server that will allow the (future) remote site access to files and data currently in the city. Easy, right?

I cannot for the life of me get a connection from a remote site into my WAMP setup. I own the domain, have a certificate, have attempted to use no-ip, have set up my router to allow access for ports 80, 443, and 8080, i have modified my hosts file, and for anything I try I get either "currently unavailable" or "timed out".

My WAMP setup appears to be working correctly - mywebsite dot net:8080/ will display my index page. From outside the router I'm stuck.

Is there a definitive resource I can be pointed to to get this set up?

[lammert]

Some ISPs block access to well known server ports like 80 and 443 on home connections. In that case you are out of luck.

Also when using IPv4--which I assume you are using--you not only need to open port 8080 from the outside, but you also need to define a tunnel connection from the WAN IP address to the IP address on your local network where the WAMP server is running. How this is done depends on the router brand and model. On some routers adding a tunnel automatically creates a firewall rule to allow incoming traffic to that port, while on other routers creating the tunnel and opening the firewall are two separate tasks.

Without knowing which router you are using it is difficult to give more specific advice.

[grandpa]

I'm using Arris MODEL: TG1672G router. Port forwarding is set up for 80, 443, and 8080, to the IP of my machine. Looks like this: inbound port 8080-80Both192.168.0.1480-80
Firewall is currently OFF. Ethernet properties Internet Protocol V4 is set up to use the IP set in the forwarding settings. PortCheckTool will time out on port 80 and 443, is refused on 8080. And once I had a connection to port 80 with this tool, so makes me think something is misconfigured. Alas.