View front panel by going to a registered domain name

[thitchen007]

Hi all,

I have a registered domain name, say,  www.frontpanel.com

By configuring a router, I can now view a running LabVIEW front panel within campus by going to 128.200.xxx.xxx/frontpanel.html, my questoin is, how can I view the frontpanel from outside of our campus. Say, I have a registered domain name as shown above.

The LabVIEW is version 2012, and the system is Windows 7.

Thanks for any help,

-Chen

[Sam_Sharp]

This has nothing to do with LabVIEW but...

You need the network to be configured to allow external requests to the PC and to set up the domain name to point to the external IP address of the computer.

If it were a home network, you'd configure your router/modem to forward requests on the ports required (port forwarding port 80 for the frontpanel.html and any ports that Remote Front Panels needs) from the internet to the PC that is running the Remote Front Panel VI.

For the domain name to work, you need to configure it's DNS settings to point to the external IP address as above. If it's a static IP address then that's pretty easy to just put in the IP address but if it's dynamic then you need to use a dynamic DNS service (e.g. dyndns).

If you're on a Campus network, you'd have to go through / talk to their IT department and I'd be very surprised if they allowed that to happen.