I guess Subsonic is not going to work for me....

[hgottfried]

I have figured out how to get logged in (had to transcode some hex) and then I got ports configured on both firewalls, hardware and local software and yet it still doesn't load from the outside.

Neither firewall shows anything blocked in the logs, and I even opened the range of ports that Subsonic uses (41000 - 41999), still to no avail.

[rob42]

41000 - 41999

??? where did you get this from? As far as I know, Subsonic uses port 8080 per default. This would be the port to open in your firewalls. Does it work when you connect locally, i.e. http://localhost:8080 ?

[hgottfried]

I can connect locally (btw it uses 80 by default). When I changed it to 8080 I could still connect to my local machine however using the URL from outside I could not connect, it wouldn't pass the test and I even went out remote to another machine and attempted to connect and it would not.

A review of my Cisco FW logs showed incoming TCP connections destined for port 8080 coming from random source ports in the 41000 range. As I am sure you are aware when you open port forwarding on a routed you must tell it what the source and destination ports are and then what machine on your network it should map too.

I am not putting this machine in my DMZ just to get this application to work. There are other server software I can use, because it does not appear this one will function.

[rob42]

I guess your problem is more related to configuring your Cisco FW correctly. What are you using? ASA? Port forwarding is a little tricky on those boxes.

In any case, you have to forward the destination port (TCP 8080) via NAT rule to your machine, not the source port. And you need to allow TCP 8080 in an outside access list. Otherwise it won't even reach the NAT rule.

Can you connect from another machine on your inside network? Just to rule out firewall problems on the server machine.

Sure there is other server software around. But Subsonic is simply the best I've seen. And no matter what you take, you'll need port forwarding for outside access. This is not a problem with Subsonic, believe me.