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from external ip to an internal webserver ip

Hello, i have never worked with a complicated router before therefor i would really like some help from pro' s. My problem is the following. I need to link a webserver in the internal network to the external wan IP, so that it can be accessed from everywhere. Our router is a fortigate 50B. I ve done it on a simple router, with virtual ip and DMZ. When I enter the settings with virtual ip on the fortigate it doesn' t work. I must be missing something but the interface and options are too complex for someone with limited knowledge. So again all i need is when the Wan IP from the provider is entered in a browser that the router redirects it to our internal webserver 192.168.100.x Thanks! regards Yves
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Apparantly its not the server. Since it works with another router. Any idea' s what setting could cause this in the fortigate?
rwpatterson
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Show the CLI output from:
 # show firewall vip <vip_name>
 # show firewall policy <policy_number>

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Ok i think i found whats causing this. Apparently the ISP blocks port 80, so i now readjusted the server to listen on port 8080. But i still get a timeout, so i guess i got to open the port on the router. Again on a normal router no problem .. but how do you do this on the fortigate? so all i need is when you enter the external ip -> it goes to internal webserver
rwpatterson
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The service (in the policy) needs to match the incoming port on the VIP.

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Ok it works fine, thanks for all the help rwpatterson!
rwpatterson
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Glad it worked out.

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