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title: "Router / Firewall Modifications Required"
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<span style="color: #222222">When method (3) NAT is chosen (refer to </span><span style="color: #222222">[Prostix Trade Portal External Access](https://skb.sterland.com:8443/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2359979)</span><span style="color: #222222"> for further information), the following are typical of the changes required on the public facing WAN address on the router/ firewall:</span>  
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<span style="color: #222222">TCP port forward of a suitable and available TCP port to the internal LAN IP address of the windows server running the Apache web server to the TCP port it's running on (which is port 80 by default).</span>

<span style="color: #222222">*For example*</span><span style="color: #222222">, if port 80 is not already in use externally, and if the IP address of the windows server running Apache web service is 192.168.1.2, and if the Apache web service was installed to run on its default port of 80, the port forward would look like this:</span>

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