Port Forwarding Issues Linux

Question

I am running a Ripple-Rest server on a CrunchBang Linux (Debian) computer. It runs on the port 5990. I ran the server on this computer and it works fine when i view it via localhost but after port forwarding 5990 on my router I cannot acces this server from any other computer via public IP. I have given full permissions to all of the files the server uses as well.

Below are links to screen shots of what I have done:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/108273736/capture.png

Please let me know what I can do to get this to work!

Answer 1

I found the best way to do this is proxy it through nginx. That way you can use standard port for accessing the service and leave the ripple-rest service as local.

apt-get install nginx

change /etc/nginx/sites_enabled/default
... add in the following.. 



server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index index.html index.htm;

        server_name yourservername.com;

        location / {
                proxy_pass http://localhost:5990;
                proxy_http_version 1.1;
                proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
                proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
        }