Huawei HG521c - will it forward port 80 to my server it not?

[Lopburi99]

I've got 3BB's Huawei HG521c router and I am about ready to throw it at the soi dogs. I just can't get it to connect incoming HTML traffic (port 80) to my Raspberry Pi server (running Apache2) on 192.168.1.99.

I've been Googling myself to death for more than a week and not getting anywhere, other to hear people cuss that router. PLEASE, somebody tell me how to crack that nut! Going crazy over this problem. All that work building my Pi server and installing Wordpress (not easy, fraught with issues) and finally getting it working beautifully on my local network. Then I try to publish to the public and I've had nothing but grief from this freaking router. This is not rocket science, what is up with Huawei anyway? Figuring how to port forward that router is a life shortening experience. Web configurator screen sorely lacking. Documentation awful, no help available that I've been able to find.

Hoping for some breakthrough advice. If there is none, has anybody pitched that router for a nice DLink or Linksys which actually works? What I mean is will 3BB fight me on a router change?

Thanks

[RichCor]

Port 80 is a problematic one as router firmware generally hardcode 80 as reserved for remote configuration. There's also a potential loopback issue with routing tables.

First I'd check to see if port forwarding actually works by configuring the router to forward port 1080 or 8080 and have the Raspberry Pi answer web calls on the same port. After verifying this, switch it back to 80.

Also, check this post about setting up a similar device to act as a file server with that router

Port Forwarding the Huawei EchoLife-HG521 Router for BarracudaDrive

So now I've given you two conflicting answers

Edited January 29, 2014 by RichCor

[Crossy]

Have you (can you) disable web configuration of the router? (and use Telnet to talk to the router afterwards)

It was the only way I got my old router (not a Huawei) to forward port 80 to a web server.

[muratremix]

Perhaps activate remote management on port 8080 if your routers allows to do so.

My asus rt-n66u allows port 80 to my nas by using DMZ without problems.

Perhaps try DMZ IP to your raspberry this way all incoming requests will be sent to raspberry, everything else you can use port redirection along with DMZ.

[Sayonarax]

Toss it in the bin as it will have custom firmware.