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Originally Posted by Masnoon
Dear Sir,
I have configured the content server and want to access the server outside of my home network. It is not working as I have tried with my mobile internet. I followed all the instruction of this : Accessing the server from anywhere on the internet, from this link but still it is not working.
Whenever I enter this information with my mobile internet browser, nothing comes, please see the attachments.
Please help.
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If you are entering the information shown on the calibre server's information page, it will not work outside your home network. You need to follow the instruction on the page you referred to and use the external IP address of your router not the internal IP address of your server.
That is on your router, configure port forwarding to forward port 8080 to the internal address of your server and then use the external address to connect from outside. For instance, your computer's internal IP address is 192.168.2.34, configure port forwarding to that address. Do a Google search on what's my ip and record the address shown. For myself, the result was similar to:
Code:
8.114.17.150
Your public IP address
In the example, you would enter 8.114.17.150:8080 as the address from outside your network. Easy way to test is to turn off WiFi on your phone and see if it works.
I've assumed the instructions you followed were the ones I've copied below:
- Find out the external IP address of the computer you are going to run the server on. You can do that by visiting the site What is my IP address in a browser running on the computer.
- If the computer is behind a router, enable port forwarding on the router to forward the port 8080 (or whatever port you choose to run the calibre Content server on) to the computer.
- Make sure the calibre server is allowed through any firewalls/anti-virus programs on your computer.
- Now you should be able to access the server on any internet-connected device using the IP address you found in the first step. For example, if the IP address you found was 123.123.123.123 and the port you are using for the calibre server is 8080, the address to use on your device becomes: http://123.123.123.123:8080.
- Optionally, use a service like no-ip to setup an easy to remember address to use instead of the IP address you found in the first step.