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  • Your server or corporate firewall prevents inbound HTTP/S access. Configure your firewalls.
  • If you are using a proxy server, your server may only be accessible using a domain name. The auto-detect cannot find out the name by itself.

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Manual identification

To manually verify that your Beebox is publicly accessible from a CMS or in the Internet, proceed as follows:

  1. Open a web browser from a PC outside your corporate network
  2. Type in the public URL of your Beebox, such as http://mybeebox.xyz.org or http://111.111.111.111:8089 
  3. If the Beebox user interface opens then it works

You may need help from your system administrator to enable public access.

How auto-detect works

Technically, the operation works as follows:

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The server gets your IP address from the HTTP header and then simply calls back. If calling back works, your Beebox is accessible on the Internet.