Ping internal IP Address

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Good Day,

We've got a web application that we access internally using an ip address (192.168.1.5/application), we now want to give access to the guys that are never in the office.

We are using internet solutions as our isp and we have public ip address which we use for our mail server and one pointing to the server in question. (is manages the router and the have done the nating and everything).so 196.x.x.x is pointing to 192.168.1.5, when on the outside i can access the application home page when i use 196.x.x.x/application but when i try to go to the next page it changed to 192.168.1.5/page1 and i get a page cannot be displayed. What's the best way to work around this.
 
You forwarded the port for your application to that IP (192.168.1.5), right? It should work fine if you did.
What error do you get on the page cannot be displayed? 500? 400? 404?
 
Remove the hardcoded absolute URLs in your application.
 
So you are NAT'ing a external public IP to your internal network??! No no no! This is so wrong!

The server needs to go into a DMZ otherwise if someone exploits the web server they will have full access to your internal network.
 
gregmcc said:
So you are NAT'ing a external public IP to your internal network??! No no no! This is so wrong!

The server needs to go into a DMZ otherwise if someone exploits the web server they will have full access to your internal network.
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Regardless of positioning of the server, until the absolute IP addresses are removed from all pages and links it won't work.
 
hi,

@froot, it just says connection timed out, the server 192.168.1.5 is taking too long to respond

@sinbud, unfortunately i cant change anything on the application

@ gregmcc, I dont hace access to the router it is managed by IS which is our ISP

What about setting up some kind of a vpn on the server? any ideas of how i can do that?
 
VPN is a possibility - and the ONLY way you will get this working if you can't change the app.
 
Whats the easiest way to setup the vpn, can ask IS to do it for me since they have access to the billion 7404 vgo router ar will something like hamachi work?
 
I've also got a billion 400G router with telkom adsl, can i use that one for the vpn, if yes then how do i do it?
 
You'd need a VPN server running,they would then port forward on the router for the VPN and you control authentication and access that way

Hamachi could work if you could change the IP address on the web app but that's also depending on an external provider and it would have a different Ip address than the hardcoded one
 
Or just install the VPN server 192.168.1.5 which is already getting natted to from outside, then IS doesn't have to change anything.
 
thanks everyone, worked like a charm and took only 5 mins to setup
 
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