External access problems

[degarb]

It was a snap installing wsl on window 11, ubuntu, docker. even weserv.

However, I disabled the firewall, and properly added a virtual server on the router 8080 in and 8080 over to the reserved ip of the windows 11 laptop.

Still, I can easily get the localhost:8080 to convert external images in the browser, while using my external ip doesnt work.

I also tried the dyndns.

I don't have ssl certificate but tried http://ipaddress.

What ever port I put weserv on is blocked, according to tools. I tried disabling the router firewall. Virtual servers work for other thins like my http server on the other machine. I don't know what could be blocking the port. windows sees weserve listening on the ports I have tried. I cant get through even on sister machines on the router.

localhost weserv works fine. I have spent 9 hours on this, I am stumped. Ai is stumped.

[degarb]

Spectrum is not blocking the port. I veriied this from search, from changing to another port used by another program after I disabled the program and rule.

[degarb]

I think I found the solution: Cmd : netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=8080 listenaddress=0.0.0.0 connectport=8080 connectaddress=172.20.226.103 to forward port to silly internal one I found in by ifconfig

This informations will be needed in docs for people running it on windows, wsl (ubuntu or other)

The reason I want to run locally, is my fear weserv.nl will go away. I need way to back this up on the windows machine.

On a side note, weserv is used by me for years, and has helped me load a weather image page that would normally eat up scores of meg in like 700kb, which has allowed me smaller cell bill and faster page loading, and able to pull a weather rad in windy conditions or weak cell conditions that otherwise wouldn't pull.

Thanks.

I am hazy on all install instruction, since this took so long.

I had 3 notebooks of notes. This is the latest: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fyFTsgl4wELQI4hFKvA_c4-Q2IhHPInBVUMKcNeAKvQ/edit?usp=sharing

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[andrieslouw]

Regarding our future; we've been online since 2007, and are not planning to go away. Thanks for testing, trying and sharing, that's precisely the reason we share our code: So others can use, learn, improve, and share their findings. That's the spirit of open-source, and the internet in general!

[kleisauke]

Glad to hear you found a solution to this. I'll close this issue for now, please feel free to re-open if there's still a problem.