Port Forwarding in SharePoint

Recently I came across an issue in SharePoint.

Environment:

1. A Server with static IP (14.*.*.*). This is the server that is public facing.

2. SharePoint Server with ip(10.1.1.55). This is a server in intranet.

Now I wanted to make the SharePoint Site at http://10.1.1.55/ accessible outside intranet using Port forwarding.

Initially I pointed http://14.*.*.*:8082 to http://10.1.1.55/. But this didn't work out because when I entered http://14.*.*.*:8082 in browser the port 8082 changed to port 80 and hence page couldn't be found.

Solution:After trying for long I figured out that port forwarding should use same port internally and externally.

by Nikhil Gaikwad via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community