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ROUTER PORT FORWARDING - (NEWBIE QUESTION)

nate88
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
    Hello I have a newbie question for Alfresco Community 3.4d, (and this question actually may apply to all versions.[I'm testing an older version only because i'm on a 32 bit laptop and intend on installing the latest version on a 64 server I'm currently building; thus—> ]) I'm relatively new at networking regarding involving router access to my home office apps from the internet:
- Hence; if I want to login into an Alfresco account from across the internet; do I require a static IP? I am the only person going to be logging into it, and regarding port forwarding, if I port forward port 8080, (or any ports so I can access my server login from another locationSmiley Wink does that still allow access to Alfresco inside my office, or will that conflict with admin, and user logins? I am using a standard netgear DSL modem/ router combo at my home office. Again, so you understand my current level of education, I can network anything behind a router; as I became coherent at networking because I am a lead animator, and ended up having to link a group of Macs and Linux machines together. We dont use windows computers except as occasional VirtualBox images that we reset to clear the maleware and bugs out of lol. But this my first experience in opening a router up to allow a login from outside my home office. And I don't want to goof up and have to call my ISP and ask them to help me reset my router settings hahaha,
**so, with respect; I realize I'm on a forum with educated people that have Computer Science Degrees; so don't beat me up too bad because I started out in the Art Dept lol – I promise you soon - digital artists will appreciate you worldwide, *because I will personally set 'em straight 😉
Thanks guys, in advance.
-fraternally Nate88
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bisana
Champ on-the-rise
Champ on-the-rise
Greatly appreciate your effort in trying out.
What I understood is that you want to access alfresco instnace from outside your office, and you do not have a public static IP address.
Yes you can do, you need to do the following steps
(1) Register your self with services like DynDNS http://dyn.com/  or NoIP http://www.noip.com/ or any provider of your choice,
(2) register your domain with the dyn.com or noip.com , so that it always update  your changing public IP to ur domain name
(3) Get hold of any router which have portforwarding, I advice you to try out routers which have DD-WRT installed, choice is yours. DD-WRT is open source and has good community support with documents and forums, Please check in dd-wrt site for supported hardware, some models of bafallo, dlink comes pre-installed with dd-wrt
(4) configure port porwarding for ur router, (it has GUI, and with few minutes u will be able to do)
Yes now you are able to access the DM, from outside your office without having static public IP address
Thanks
Joseph John
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