ESP8266 Community Forum

- Fri Apr 06, 2018 10:39 pm #75189 Hello

I am having a problem connecting to the ESP Webserver.

I know the ESP local IP and the ESP external IP.

But the ESP is behind multiple routers. In the local (apartment) router I have enabled port forwarding (port 9999) to the ESP. But the apartment router is connected to the floor router, and the floor router is connected to the building router. I can't setup port forwarding in the floor and building routers due to my limited networking experience.

How do I set it up so that I can access the ESP from, for example, a mobile phone browser?

- Sat Apr 07, 2018 7:16 am #75194 Exactly the same way you forwarded the port to your ESP. You forward the port from router to router until you reach your device

- Sun Apr 08, 2018 9:22 am #75214 Thanks for the reply.

But what do I do if I can't login to the other routers?

If I know the internal IP address of the ESP, and the internal IP addresses of the other routers (but I can't login to the administrative pages), what options do I have? I have heard of VPN, does the ESP use VPN?

- Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:42 pm #75225 I'm not sure if ESP8266 can handle VPN. Put you can always write yourself a little script in php (or whatever you're familiar with), put it on a web server both you and the ESP can access, and then communicate trough it.
You'd leave a message on the server, the ESP would would make a get request, fetch the message and do what it's told.