Need some help here;about port forwarding

Well,I've port forwarded but my friends still can't connect to my bukkit server. Any Ideas?

 

you haven't port forwarded correctly.

 

kk lets start from the top. Lemme have your server.properties and we'll go from there...can you connect from your house? The ip (number) you use in your house (or localhost) only works if your on you network, you need to give your PUBLIC IP to your friends, to find that just google "whats my public ip?" so you type inside-ip-address: port and your friends type public-ip-address: port
Ignore the spaces, bukkit was putting smilies in lol

 

#Minecraft server properties
#Sat Jul 16 14:02:15 EST 2011
level-name=Minecraft
allow-nether=true
view-distance=10
spawn-monsters=false
online-mode=false
spawn-animals=false
max-players=10
server-ip=
pvp=false
level-seed=
server-port=25565
allow-flight=false
white-list=false

My IP seems to be changing after I restart my modem and I can't connect with "localhost" I haave to type my IP in order to log into my server.

 

kk, lets try it with your PUBLIC IP. Google whats my public ip and then try public-ip: port (ignore the space)

 

I need some help, and I don't really want to post in another thread to get help, but I can't create threads. Well I create a thread, but I can't actually go into the thread, it says it has a problem redirecting or something like that. And seeing as both threads have no views I'm guessing no one else can go into it either. And I know it's not just me because I can enter other threads just fine like this one.

Does anyone know why it might be doing this? I create the thread then it tries redirects me to the page but it can't redirect me there. But it did create it because it posted my thread in the forums.

 

I don't quite get what you mean..do you mean port my public IP?

 

o you want to learn to port forward...heres a very simple explanation:

1. get the ip of the server (if its on your computer do one of the following:
WINDOWS-click on the start button in the lower left corner and type cmd into the box. When a black command prompt window appears type ipconfig and look for ipv4 address. Thats the server's ip! Enter that into your server.properties file.
LINUX/OS X (MAC)-Open op a terminal and type ifconfig and look for ipv4 address. Thats the server's ip! Enter that into your server.properties file.
2. obtain the make and model of your router (it should say on the router)
3. go to http://portforward.com/ and pick your router from the list
4. the port you need to forward UNLESS YOU CHANGED IT IN THE SERVER.PROPERTIES is 25565. Forward that port to your servers ip (see step 1)
5. also make sure that max players in your server.properties is set to more than 1!
6. again go to http://portforward.com/ and look for External IP (near the middle of the page)
7. that number along with :25565 at then end is the ip you need to give to your friends EXAMPLE: my-public-ip:25565

lemme know if you need any help with that...and while were at it heres a simple explanation of port forwarding written by yours truly:

Picture the internet as a highway. Your public ip is what directs your friends computers off of the highway and onto the street (your router). Once a computer gets to the street it needs to get the house number or port. The port (in this case 25565) is passed to the router which, like a GPS or a visitor's center, directs the computer to the correct house (server). Now what port forwarding does is tell the router that when it sees a computer asking for a port (25565 in this case) it should direct it to the servers ip. Its all very simple in a way!

 

I know how to port forward it's just when my friends try to log in to the bukkit server they can't..but they can log into the Normal server.