How to Circumvent RCN's Block on Port 80 Incoming Traffic

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Set up your home web server on a port other than port 80.

   You can use Apache, nginx, etc.
   
   Verify that you can reach the server within your network by using another device to access it.
   
   For example, if you set up a server on a machine with IP address
   192.168.1.101, using port 82, go to http://192.168.1.101:82 in the web browser of another device on your network.
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   Step 2: In your router's configuration

   For example, if you set up a server on a machine with IP address
   192.168.1.101, using port 82, you'd forward port 82 to IP address
   192.168.1.101. ,, For example, if your external IP address is
   123.45.67.890 and you are using port 82, go to http://123.45.67.890:82 in the web browser of a device not on my network. , One option is https://github.com/yukinoraru/heroku-http-reverse-proxy deployed on Heroku.
   
   Be sure to change the configuration to point to your IP address and port! For example, if your external IP address was
   123.45.67.890 and you are using port 82, you would replace "YOUR SITE" in config.ru with "http://123.45.67.890:82"
   
   Now you should be able to access your internal webserver on port 80 by accessing the URL of the reverse proxy server.
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   Step 3: forward the port your server is running on to the IP of the machine it is running on.

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   Step 4: Find your network's external IP address: http://www.whatismyip.com/

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   Step 5: Verify that your server is reachable outside the network by accessing the external IP address with the port you chose.

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   Step 6: Setup a reverse proxy server outside your network that sends traffic to the port you forwarded on your external IP.

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   Step 7: Test your reverse proxy.

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