Cannot coonect to webserver at home by the internet

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Hi,
Why are you forwarding ports 80 and 8000 on your router to 8000?
If you want to use port 8000 from the outside world (http://81.x.x.x:8000)
to access your web server on internal port 8000, there is no need to forward
port 80.

I am using a similar set-up without mapping port 80.
What router do you use?

br/rob

<r> wrote in message news:41473db6$0$76519$b83b6cc0@news.wanadoo.nl...
> Hi,
>
> I have an webserver running at home, who listens at port 8000 and has
> IP-adres 192.x.x.x. I have a router with external IP 81.x.x.x
> Inside my LAN I can view my website, by http://192.x.x.x:8000) on my
> webserver but by the internet it isn't possible. On my router I have
> portforward ports 80 and 8000 to ip 192.x.x.x, port 8000.
> If I try to connect to my website, by http://81.x.x.x:8000 I get the
message
> "page cannot be found".
>
> Does anyone have an idea what is going wrong here?
>
> Regards Ray
>
>