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Has anyone else tried to port forward outside port 80 to inside port 80 on an ASUS RT-N66R? I just spent 3 hours trying to get a new web server functioning from the internet (which I've done quite a few times, never with this model router) and finally figured out that it was the external port being set to 80.

When I change the outside port to 8080, everything works. You may thing that this is happening because I've allowed WAN access to the console, but I have not! Is this device just "reserving" the port in case I wanted to open it up?! I also see no way of changing the management access port either. Am I stuck with having to apply a port number at the end of my url, I really hope not :(

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  • You webserver can define what port it is running on, and if configure the correct way, you going to yourdomain.com will automatically be redirected to yourdomain:8080 but appear as yourdomain.com. Port 80 and 443 are just the standard ports, your website, can be assigned to any port. With regards to your question about the firmware, if it really already assigned the its remote management functionality to port 80, you can always just disable that functionality if there is an option to disable it. As for a way of changing the port, I have no idea, thats what OpenWRT/DD-WRT is for.
    – Ramhound
    Jul 21, 2016 at 21:33
  • I just set the forward to "8080 to 8080", changed the listening port to 8080 on the web server, changed the virtual host statement to 8080 in 000-default.conf, restarted the service and now i get a connection refused. Jul 21, 2016 at 22:22
  • Also, turned the firewall off for testing. Jul 21, 2016 at 22:23
  • It sure seems that I'll need to use 8080, without being able to port forward 80, the browser would always try 80, no? Jul 21, 2016 at 22:46
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    I don't have enough information about your server configuration to do that. I suggest you self-answer this question. I provided the documentation I thought was relevant for that reason.
    – Ramhound
    Jul 22, 2016 at 14:05

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