Optional Port Forwarding

After you have installed a certificate and established an HTTPS connection to the controller, you may wish to continue accessing the controller over the internet. To achieve this, the controller must be accessible via its HTTPS port. The default HTTPS port is internal port 443, but this can be changed if necessary in the System Settings (available once Use HTTPS is enabled).

The easiest method is to configure the router to forward all traffic from external port 443 (the default HTTPS port) to the controller's internal HTTPS port, as in the image below.

In this case, all traffic directed to the external HTTPS IP address will be forwarded to the controller. The controller's web interface could be accessed by typing https://203.97.123.169 into an external web browser.

However, it is possible to grant external access by forwarding any external port to the controller's HTTPS port. This is especially useful if external port 443 is not available on your network.

In this case, any traffic directed to external port 1000 will be forwarded to the controller's HTTPS port. The controller's web interface can be accessed simply by appending the external port number onto the end of the URL: e.g. https://203.97.123.169:1000.

Note: If the controller does not have a factory loaded certificate, it will not be accessible via HTTPS until an HTTPS certificate has been installed, regardless of whether port forwarding has been configured.