"Web page not found"

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I did the automatic installation and did everything according to the guide. I 
can acces the vlc share from localhost and everything seems to be working fine. 
But when i try to access it from my Phone or laptop from external network, it 
says "Web page unavailable".

Port forwarding test is OK. Should I open other ports besides 80?

Vlc Shares 0.5.4 Win 7 x64

Original issue reported on code.google.com by antti....@gmail.com on 17 May 2011 at 7:38

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VLCShares system tests are all cgreen/blue

Original comment by antti....@gmail.com on 17 May 2011 at 7:39

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VLCShares uses port 80 for web pages and 8081 or 5554 for streaming. 
Anyway, if you did the port forwarding correctly problems can be related to:
 - you use a wrong external ip address trying access to vlc-shares
 - you use the "localhost" name (but localhost is valid only when using the "vlc-shares pc")
 - firewall issues?

Original comment by ximarx@gmail.com on 18 May 2011 at 5:54

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I have tried to use my external ip address and also my dyndns adress but 
neither works. Yes i know that localhost is only for the sharing pc, but i just 
said that to confirm that the actual server seems to be working. Could be 
related  to firewall issues.

Original comment by antti....@gmail.com on 18 May 2011 at 7:23

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Are you sure you did port forwarding well (maybe you used a wrong internal ip 
for forwarding)?

Can you use VLCShares from another device inside your LAN? (Phone with wifi 
connection / another pc / Wiimc?)

Original comment by ximarx@gmail.com on 18 May 2011 at 7:38

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Original comment by ximarx@gmail.com on 4 Nov 2011 at 6:48

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