Ports not opening on gateway despite changing controller management default ports
Controller: OC200
Gateway: ER706W v1.0
Controller management ports were changed in the controller settings "System Settings > Access Config" section to the following
HTTPS Port for Controller Management: 1024
HTTP Port for Controller Management: 1025
The controller was then restarted
Port Forwarding ports 80 and 443 to a NGINX Reverse proxy and enabled.
Internally the ports route and forward just fine and i can get to the status page of the reverse-proxy.
However, testing the connection externally against the public IP, the 2 ports still appear closed as if the port-forwarding isn't applying. It's as if the lock on port 80 and 443 are still in place despite changing them on the controller and restarting it.
Is there anything i am missing here? Locks on the ports by something else?
Hi @pomong
Please check the Internet IP address of your ER706W router, make sure it is the same IP as your public IP. You can go to whatismyip.com to check your public IP address.
It's on Devices list->choose the router->Right menu, choose the Online status WAN->IPv4 address.
pomong wrote
Controller: OC200
Gateway: ER706W v1.0
Controller management ports were changed in the controller settings "System Settings > Access Config" section to the following
HTTPS Port for Controller Management: 1024
HTTP Port for Controller Management: 1025
The controller was then restarted
Port Forwarding ports 80 and 443 to a NGINX Reverse proxy and enabled.
Internally the ports route and forward just fine and i can get to the status page of the reverse-proxy.
However, testing the connection externally against the public IP, the 2 ports still appear closed as if the port-forwarding isn't applying. It's as if the lock on port 80 and 443 are still in place despite changing them on the controller and restarting it.
Is there anything i am missing here? Locks on the ports by something else?
Hi @Fae
Under the "overview" tab for the router, the Public IP listed is my internal IP address? Which according to other forum entries, is the registered IP to the controller from the gateway? Not entirely sure.
However under the "WAN2" tab the Public IP is listed as my actual Public IP address.
Hi @pomong
The "public IP" on the overview page shows the IP address that this router communicates with the controller.
The IP on the WAN port is the router's actual WAN IP.
Have you gone to the wahtsmyip website to confirm it has the same IP as your WAN IP?
Also, you can try opening DMZ for your server IP, which means all ports will be open for your server. That will help you detect if it is a port forwarding issue. If DMZ still won't solve the problem, it's more likely not a port forwarding-related issue. Maybe check your server's gateway settings?
