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Error 404 router

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 7:33 am
by BullWayne
I think what may be happening is my router is not letting me make my computer into a server.... but I have windows 8 and no clue how to fix it.... the info on it is for windows 7 and it is very different now. If some one could post the steps to get past the router I'm sure I can get started on making my game. Please post back soon and TY4 Your time.

Re: Error 404 router

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 7:39 am
by a_bertrand
Not sure opening your PC as server is the right solution. Anyhow before that:

I assume you are using a router with NAT (Network Translation):

- Make sure you have a static IP and not a dynamic one. If you have a dynamic IP (your ISP will tell you), and it is most of the cases so, you will need to use some dynamic DNS setup like http://www.noip.com/
- For the outside world, your PC will be seen as the IP of your router, so use something like: http://www.whatismyip.com/ to know what is the IP people see
- On the router side, you must "wire" or configure a given port to your PC. Note that only 1 PC inside can offer a service on that port. So if you setup a web server (port 80), you can't offer 2 different servers. Anyhow, on the router configuration (and it depends on your router) you will have to specify a port and the PC which will offer the service for that port.
- On the PC, you will have to open the windows firewall to accept incoming connections on the given port.

All those basically are the same from 7 and 8, only the firewall configuration is a bit different but not overall too much.

I can't give you a detailed how to, because I have no clues what kind of router you use and it may even depend on your ISP.