I spent three hours fighting with this yesterday, so I'm hoping someone will be able to help. I'm great at programming and webmastering via cPanel, but I'm presently a total n00b at setting up servers.
I have a Windows 7 machine that has been running an HFS file server on port 6744 successfully for over a year. My ISP (Frontier) is not blocking port 80, and I have DMZ Host enabled. The computer in question is connected to the router via WAN. We have a wireless network with 4-8 other machines and devices, all of which connect wirelessly. Everything works like a charm.
Because our public IP is always changing, I have an account via no-ip that keeps everything synced up. Even now, that is still running flawlessly.
Up until recently, the Windows 7 machine running HFS has had a LAN address (192.168.254.x), like all the other machines.
However, I just installed IIS7 on the machine. Immediately after installing IIS on the machine, the router does not "see" the machine. Running ipconfig /all
in cmd on the Windows 7 shows our public IP. Also, the Network and Sharing Center on any computer on the network shows the server computer as having the public IP.
I enabled https (port 443) on IIS7, and set things to force use of SSL (following the official Microsoft tutorials). Navigating to https://localhost
on the server brings up the IIS7 default home page (which I haven't replaced yet.)
Here's the problem: I'm getting nothing if I navigate to https://{Our IP Address}, either from within my website, or via a proxy (hidemyass.com). canyouseeme.org shows port 443 as unreachable.
I have configured my router many times before. I have port 25565 open for Minecraft on another machine. Strangely, I don't have port 6744 open for HFS, but it runs without problems - via the DMZ no doubt. I cannot open port 443 on the router (which is actually a preset on the router as a preset for HTTPS) because the server HAS NO LAN IP, unlike the other machines. Attempting to open the port "dynamically" fails, and it doesn't work if I set it to the IP allegedly assigned to the server computer.
Again, the router does not show the server on "my connected home," even though it is connected, probably because of the DMZ.
I'm pulling my hair out. Any suggestions on how to get the port opened?
NOTE: Heading this off at the pass: our security needs dictate that I absolutely NOT turn off the router firewall. It is on "low" as it is.
EDIT: Pulled this data off of ipconfig /all
, under Wireless Area Network (WAN), which is what I'm connecting via.
DHCP Enabled: Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled: Yes
IPv4: 50.52.10.7 (preferred)
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 50.52.10.1
DHCP Server: 50.52.10.1
DNS Servers: 50.52.10.1
NetBIOS over Tcpip: Enabled