Web sharing is not accessible outside home network

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Web sharing is not accessible outside home network

I'm running 10.5.8 on my Macbook Pro. I have allowed Web Sharing and Firewall is set to allow all incoming connections. I'm running MAMP and developing a client website locally. I want to allow my client to view this development site on my computer using the IP address I'm given in the Web Sharing section of System Preferences (within Sharing). I can see this fine within my network but no one outside my network can view. Can someone help me with why this is occuring and how I can fix? Thank you,

Jarrod

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Dec 4, 2012 2:24 PM

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Answer 1

BDAqua

Level 10

239,111 points

Dec 4, 2012 2:30 PM in response to Jarrod Erdody

Hi Jarrod, you need to do Port Forwarding on your Router & find your outside IP...

What's my ip...

http://www.whatismyipaddress.com/

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Answer 2

BobHarris

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53,081 points

Dec 4, 2012 7:35 PM in response to Jarrod Erdody

NOTE: Even if you enable Port Forwarding in your home router, your ISP may still block port 80. Many ISPs do NOT want you running a web server that is visible outside your home UNLESS you are paying for one of their commercial accounts.

Alternatives are to use Port Forwarding to map a non-standard port on the Internet side to port 80 on your Mac. Then you access your web site using http://ip.address.of.home:nnnn where nnnn is the non-standard port you mapped port 80 to.

You can also make life a bit easier if you get a free dynamic DNS name from a service from No-IP.com or DynDNS.org. Then you would access your web site via http://dynamic.dns.name:nnnn

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