Can't open site other than on the port 80

Question

I installed on my server, a Bug tracker which is accessible through port 3000 (http://myserver:3000) .

Every thing is ok on my server, i can access to my web application any time, but in my job's computer, i cannot even connect to this application and no other web application which run on different port other than 80.

I have added a role on the windows Firewall settings by letting connection to and from port 3000. But same result.

If some one have a solution to this, i'll be thankful.

Best Regards

Answer 1

Is it possible that your work network is blocking your home machine. Can you ping your home machine or access it with its ip address? When you type

http://myserver:3000 

are you doing this from the local intranet? If you have your bug server on your home machine then you won't be able to access

http://myserver:3000 

from your work machine without a fully qualified domain nae or ip address?

If the above answers are all resolved then whenever I have such difficulties on windows, I do the following. If you don't have admin rights you might not be able to do this.

temporarily disable all firewall/antivirus programs. Start web server listening on port 80 (on your home machine) Access from a different machine if this works then Start web server on 3000 Access from a different machine.

If it works then it is a matter of finding whether the problem was that the web request was being blocked by the firewall or antivirus. In your case it appears it might be the antivirus. To confirm disable all antivirus for a moment.

Make sure you turn your antivirus/firewall back on once the problem is diagnosed!