How to Expose a Local Server to the Internet Without any Additional Tools
Expose a Local Server to the Internet Without any Additional Tools
Most of the time Developers will have the scenario to access the servers running on local machines externally through the internet.
In this tutorial, let us see how to expose the local server to the Internet without using any additional tools in the windows system.
I am running an Apache Server on a Local machine on port number 8085 and the machine is connected to the internet through a WIFI router(Motorola)
Configure Router
By default the routers restruconfigure the router to allow the internet traffic to the specific internal port(8085).
The Router management UI can be used to define the forwarding rules to forward the traffic from external IP’s to internal IP’s on a specific port.
Open your default router URL, I am using Motorola router access the one of the below IP
(for Motorola modems MB series): 192.168.100.1
(for Motorola modem/router combos): 192.168.0.1The default username is: admin
The default password is: motorola
