Cannot access Ubuntu web server site from outside network

Question

So I've set up a LAMP web server on Ubuntu 14.04 server distro and installed owncloud as well as wordpress on it. It's connected to the web via ethernet and connectivity is good as far as I can tell (it can ping sites and pull in updates just fine). While I am connected to the wireless network from the router to which the server is connected (same network), I can access wordpress and owncloud just fine. However, the problem comes when I try to access it from a different network location (like from back at my apartment). The session just times out.

I checked the port forwarding (ZyXEL PK5001Z-CenturyLink router) for both port 80 and 443 as instructed by http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/ZyXEL/PK5001Z-CenturyLink/Apache.htm. I've tried pinging each of those ports at the server's IP address with no luck.

I'm pretty new to programming and networking, so this is probably an easy fix, I just don't know where to look. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. The information for the server and addresses is listed below. Thank you in advance.

IP: 192.168.0.170

URL: fernweh.ddns.net "/wordpress" or "/owncloud"

dynamic ip assigned through noip.com

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UPDATE

Okay, so I configured noip2 as suggested and still no luck. I also set up port forwarding on a couple higher ports (as suggested as well), still nothing.

I then checked to see what ports were actually open using

'nmap -v -sT local'

Which found 1000 ports, only 2 of which were not filtered

'80/tcp   http   open
 443/tcp  https  closed'

Do I need to open up more ports using

'iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport "port number" -j INPUT'

Or is this irrelevant?

Answer 1

192.168.0.170 is a private IP address which the server uses in your private LAN. It may be used by anyone, and is for that reason never routed to the internet. To access the internet, you specified your router as the default gateway. You know that already, because you enabled port-forwarding on the router.

When I ping your DDNS address fernweh.ddns.net it resolves to your internal IP

$ ping fernweh.ddns.net
PING fernweh.ddns.net (192.168.0.170) 56(84) bytes of data.

That cannot work for reasons stated above.

I suppose you're already running the NoIP client?. If yes, reconfigure it

sudo /usr/local/bin/noip2 -C

If not, download and install it like described. Since it is not good style to give a link and nothing else:

Download the source tarball to e.g your home folder and unpack

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://www.no-ip.com/client/linux/noip-duc-linux.tar.gz
tar xf noip-duc-linux.tar.gz
cd noip-2.1.9-1/

Switch to root: sudo -s and install

make install

Finally, you need to either run noip2 or make it a service so it runs at boot time. (See the README.first in the source folder)

It will compile the binaries and lead you through configuration.

Furthermore:

• You cannot ping a port. ping works by sending ICMP packages. Unlike TCP/UDP, ICMP has no concept of a port. It might well be, that your router and/or ISP block pings to you.
• As @Zacharee1 and @Daniel already mentioned in the comments, it may also well be, that your ISP blocks well-known ports like HTTP(S). Run your webserver an a high port. That way you also gain a very slight protection against attacks, since a full port-scan is needed to discover the running web server. Note, that this is not a sufficient security measure! Keep your WordPress and OwnCloud installations up-to-date.