{"id":800,"date":"2017-08-25T00:14:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T16:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2018-09-05T00:36:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T16:36:54","slug":"host-web-server-behind-linksys-ea7500-max-stream-ac1900-router","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/host-web-server-behind-linksys-ea7500-max-stream-ac1900-router\/","title":{"rendered":"How to host a web server behind Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router"},"content":{"rendered":"

My 2-year broadband contract ended with StarHub a few months ago and I signed up for a dual broadband (Cable + Fibre) contract for the Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 MU-MIMO gigabit router<\/a>. <\/p>\n

With the new broadband subscription, the D-Link DIR-868L router<\/a> from my earlier contract sits behind the cable modem while the new Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 MU-MIMO gigabit router sits behind my fibre optic modem. <\/p>\n

Since I want my reverse proxy server<\/a> to serve HTTP traffic via the fibre optic network, I had to configure my Linksys router so that my Raspbian Jessie Lite reverse proxy server<\/a> can serve HTTP traffic from the Internet.<\/p>\n

To have a reference on how to do that again when need be, this post documents the steps that I took to host a web server, which serves as a reverse proxy server, behind the Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router.<\/p>\n

Logging into the admin portal of Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router<\/h2>\n

To begin with configuring the Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router, you will need to access the admin portal. The admin portal of the Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router is accessible via http:\/\/192.168.1.1\/<\/a>. Once you enter http:\/\/192.168.1.1\/<\/a> in the location bar of your router, you will be shown the login screen:
\n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

If you had not setup a password for accessing the admin portal, the default password for accessing the admin portal of the Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router is admin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After logging in, you will see the following screen:
\n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

Reserving a private IP address for your web server<\/h2>\n

We wouldn't want the router to give our web server a different private IP address every time we restart our web server. To tell the Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router to reserve a private IP address for our web server, we can perform the following steps:<\/p>\n

Click on Connectivity<\/strong> on the panel to the left to get into the Connectivity<\/strong> screen:
\n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

Click on Local Network<\/strong> tab on the top to get into the Local Network<\/strong> screen:
\n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

Click on the DHCP Reservations<\/strong> button to get into the DHCP Reservations<\/strong> screen:
\n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

Select the web server entry and click on the Add DHCP Reservation<\/strong> button to get the router to reserve that private IP address for the web server:
\n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

Forwarding port 80 and port 443 to your web server<\/h2>\n

The next thing to do is to tell the Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router to:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. reserve the standard ports for HTTP and HTTPS for our web server<\/li>\n
  2. forward any traffic that the router receives at port 80 and 443 of the public address to our web server.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This is known as port forwarding.<\/p>\n

    To configure the Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router to perform port forwarding for port 80 and 443, we can perform the following steps:<\/p>\n

    Click on Security<\/strong> on the panel to the left to get into the Security<\/strong> screen:
    \n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

    Click on Apps and Gaming<\/strong> tab at the top to get into the Apps and Gaming<\/strong> screen:
    \n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

    Click on Single Port Forwarding<\/strong> link to get into the Single Port Forwarding<\/strong> screen:
    \n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

    Click on Add a new Single Port Forwarding<\/strong> button, key in the entry to map port 80 of the public IP address (External Port) to port 80 (Internal Port) of the web server:
    \n\"Linksys
    \nClick on the Save<\/strong> link beside the entry to persist the record.<\/p>\n

    Click on Add a new Single Port Forwarding<\/strong> button, key in the entry to map port 443 of the public IP address (External Port) to port 443 of the web server (Internal Port): <\/p>\n

    \"Linksys
    \nClick on the Save<\/strong> link beside the entry to persist the record.<\/p>\n

    Once you are done, the Single Port Forwarding<\/strong> screen should look like the following:
    \n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

    Finally, click on the Apply<\/strong> button and then the Ok<\/strong> button to get the Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router to remember the port forwarding configurations. <\/p>\n\n