Installing on a Windows Home Server Machine

[GJ51]

Tom,

Please check your Private messages.

Gary J

[tomkiki1]

I just want to report that I'm up and running. Thank you Gary for all your help. You are the best!

If interested, this was the solution.

We uninstalled Subsonic from the control panel of the WHS server. Then from the root directory on the C:\ drive we deleted the \subsonic folder.

Then I downloaded a fresh installation copy of Subsonic.exe. I Installed it and set up the program for ports 8080 and 440, and 250 memory limit. Restarted subsonic. Once up and running, I clicked on the server address in the SS Control Panel. This opened up the SS log in page, I was able to log in but had to reset up everything on the account. Not a big deal.

I'm up and running and am happy I can have my music with me at all times.

[wcallen]

I can connect to localhost:8080
when I go in through my subsonic.org personal address, or through my router's external address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080, I get the Acer Server home page
Is there a way around this interception???

[GJ51]

Try changing Subsonic to 8081 and 441 for ssl.

[wcallen]

I changed the port forward in Subsonic to 8081, and also changed the router to 8081 >80
I have the https box unchecked.
when I enter my router's external address, 99.236.xxx.xxx:8081 I still get the Acer Easystore home server page

[GJ51]

The problem is in the router. You need to set up a valid forwarding rule for port 8081 to go to the internal address of the server. e.g. 192.168.1.xxx

Your getting the default Acer site because there isn't a valid forwarding rule.

[wcallen]

Hi Gary,
I've assigned a permanent address for the router, 192.168.1.101, and
a forwarding rule:
external 8081
internal 80
protocol tcp
to ip address 192.168.1.101
enabled

Is this what you mean?

[GJ51]

Yes, the internal 80 is probably the problem. What make model of router?

[alphawave7]

Hi Gary,
I've assigned a permanent address for the router, 192.168.1.101, and
a forwarding rule:
external 8081
internal 80
protocol tcp
to ip address 192.168.1.101
enabled

Is this what you mean?

The port opened should be your server machine, not your router (1.101)

[GJ51]

Hi Gary,
I've assigned a permanent address for the router, 192.168.1.101, and
a forwarding rule:
external 8081
internal 80
protocol tcp
to ip address 192.168.1.101
enabled

Is this what you mean?

The port opened should be your server machine, not your router (1.101)

Yikes, now I'm really confused!!!

First, you don't need to assign an address for the router. Most routers use 192.168.1.1 as their base address, setting it to a higher address would just decrease the number of available internal ip addresses on your internal network. So I'm Assuming that you just misspoke and that you assigned 192.168.1.101 as the internal IP address of the computer that you're using to host Subsonic. Additionally, I'm assuming that you've installed SS and assigned the service to run on port 8081. So if you go to the desktop of the computer that's running SS, you can open the tray icon, click on "Open Subsonic in browser" and it will open the local instance of Subsonic and the address bar in the browser will read http://192.168.1.101:8081. You should also be able to connect to SS using the INTERNAL address by entering it into any browser on any computer that is connected to your network and has an internal IP.

If that is true, all you need to do next is route incoming traffic from the internet to the local machine by setting up a correct port forwarding rule on your router. Every router is somewhat unique in the way they set up the admin pages of the router, and they even have some variations in the terminology they use, but all you need to do is read the manual for the router and set up a rule that any external incoming requests for port 8081 get sent to 192.168.1.101. If it's set up properly you can go to http://www.canyouseeme.org/ enter your SS port number and click the Check box to be sure the Subsonic port is open. If it isn't open, you won't connect from outside your network.

See also: http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtop ... 5765#25765

[wcallen]

I mis-spoke myself in the data I provided.
The router is Linksys WRT160N
The SERVER (Acer) has a permanent address assigned on the router of 192.168.1.101
a forwarding rule:
external 8081
internal 80
protocol tcp
to ip address 192.168.1.101 (the SERVER)
enabled

LOCALLY, everything works.

Remotely, when I enter the ROUTER's external web address, and the port
http://99.236.128.117:8081/
I get the Acer Home page of the Router, not subsonic.
Sorry for the confusion.

[GJ51]

That's becuse you're routing 8081 external to 80 internal.

Change it so that 8081 external goes to 8081 internal where SS is listening for the request on the server.

[alphawave7]

internal should also be 8081. 80 is already being served by the ASUS server.
edit: doh! Gary beat me again!

[GJ51]

Yeah, but I misspelled because.

[wcallen]

YAY!
That fixed it.
The router things, was, of course the thing!
Thanks for all the help.