Public IP assigned to VM - welcome to nginx!

[Vladimir]

Hi!

I have a setup problem, I guess: I have external (public) IP address
mapped to the local private address of VM, and I am not sure what <IP>
I should use in bbb-conf --setip <IP> command. Neither works for
access from outside, it seems. When I use the local private address,
the bbb-conf -c command doesn't give me any problems, but http://<public
IP> says "Welcome to nginx!". When I use bbb-conf --setip <public IP>,
then bbb-conf -c points to conflict between ifconfig-provided <local
IP> and configuration set to <public IP>. However, in this case I get
the BBB home page when I navigate to http://<public IP>. But nothing
works after that - attempt to create a meeting produces the whole page
of errors.

I have only port 80 open for access from outside via public IP. Do I
need any more ports to open?

Thanks,

Vladimir

[Dean Mantz]

What do you have setup in your local DNS?  I had to get w/my ISP and have them map domain name to external IP and then I mapped domain name to local IP on my internal DNS.

Dean Mantz
Family man, Discovery STAR DEN & KS LC, LoTi and Intel Mentor.

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[Fred Dixon]

Hi Vladimir,

Did you check out the instructions at the FAQ
http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/FAQ#Can_I_provide_external_access_to_a_BigBlueButton_server_behind_m

I think what is happening that your external address is mapped
correctly into your internal server correctly, that's why you get the
BigBlueButton landing page when you use your external IP.

When you run bbb-conf -c and get a warning that the IP configured for
BigBlueButton does not match the local IP -- that's actually correct
as your asking BigBlueButton to listen for external requests on an
external IP address (an IP address that is actually mapped to the
internal server by your firewall, but bbb-conf doesn't know about that
mapping on your firewall).

However, you also need to map the port 1935 (RTMP) to enable
BigBlueButton to connect to the real-time server (red5) and port 9123
to enable desktop sharing.

Regards,... Fred

[Vladimir]

Dean,

The DNS is not an issue (yet) because at this point I try to
manipulate two IP addresses: private and public. If I can make it work
with public IP, then domain name will be the next step.

Thanks,

Vladimir

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[Vladimir]

Fred,

The ports 1935 and 9123 are opened now, I've checked with
HyperTerminal. Still the same problem. I have read FAQ. However, I am
a little confused about the /etc/hosts mapping suggested in FAQ:

suggested : 192.168.1.10 host.domain.org

since I don't have the subdomain assigned there yet, should I map two
IPs, like

192.168.1.10 72.61.145.12 ?

Thanks,

Vladimir

On Jul 29, 7:17 am, Fred Dixon <ffdi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Vladimir,
>
> Did you check out the instructions at the FAQ

>    http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/FAQ#Can_I_provide_externa...