Port Forward Web GUI?

[Jayce]

I'm setting up FreeNAS on a box here at home to work as a local NAS. It's a headless BSD based server with a web gui. I obviously access the gui interface through a web browser... but I do wonder... I'm curious if I can get to the web gui of this NAS from outside of the network.

I tried forwarding both 80 and 443 to the IP the NAS is using right now, along with using both http://externalip and https://externalip in my testing. Nothing worked.

Where am I goofing up?

 

[office politics]

could be firewall....but, most likely, you isp is blocking this port to prevent ppl hosting websites on residential connections. in which case, change the port to something non standard.