HTTP port not reaching external traffic

Z70DMS

Hello,

I setup an HTTP server on my network and created a NAT rule to have traffic reach the WAN network. Unfortunately the traffic does not reach the external network. Ports are open on the server and I can reach the HTML on my local network but not when trying from the WAN link. I tried an online port scanner and it states that port 80 is closed on my WAN IP. I created the same rule for MySQL and the scanner is capable of connecting to port 3306.
I also changed the ports for PFsense web config portal to 8080 and 8443 but same issue.

Has anyone had the same issue with PFsense?

SteveITS

@z70dms Does the firewall on the web server allow connections from any address?

Z70DMS

@steveits

Hello,

Below is a copy of my firewall rule on the server
Status: active

To Action From

22/tcp ALLOW Anywhere
80/tcp ALLOW Anywhere
443/tcp ALLOW Anywhere
Apache ALLOW Anywhere
22/tcp (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6)
80/tcp (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6)
443/tcp (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6)
Apache (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6)

Gertjan

Traffic that matches a Firewall + NAT rule will have it's States increment.
Did you see the same thing ?
No (0/0) States means traffic never arrives at the pfSense WAN.

You can also run a packet capture on your LAN interface : use port 80 (as a destination) and the IP of the web server (as a destination) : you should see traffic if there is some, flowing 'out' of the LAN NIC.

Z70DMS

@gertjan

Hello,
I was able to resolve the issue
The port traffic was OK as I was able to telnet to a website using port 80
The issue was related to Apache24 configured to localhost
I had to reimage another server and installed NGINX and set the config file details to WWW.
After doing this I am now able to connect to my serving using an external ISP.

Thank you everyone for your response!