Thread:Project:Support desk/Cannot access mediawiki from outside of firewall

Hi.

I have the following setup.

Server, inside firewall, running Apache2 and MediaWiki. The apache server is receiving connections on (non-standard) port 6969. - From inside my lan, I can access mediawiki without problems: 10.0.0.2:6969/mediawiki - From outside my lan, I cannot access mediawiki with the name of the server/site: mysite.com:6969/mediawiki. It just hangs while trying to connect. Naturally, I have set up the necessary firewall rules/forwarding. This is demonstrated by the fact that I can enter http://mysite.com:6969 from outside and access the apache servers main page. But when I add /wikipedia to the external URL I cannot connect.

Any ideas? I cannot find any obvious configurations that somehow deny the connection. And since Apache2 and the firewall is set up, and other sites on the server can be reached from the outside, I fail to see how mediawiki cannot be reached.

Im thankful for all hints/suggestions/help.

UPDATE: To be more precise and correct, it seems that I CAN connect from outside, sort of. However - it stays on loading the page, and after 20 minutes its still not showing.