Windows – Port Forwarding: Why do the local sites on 80 work but not those on 8080

iisport-forwardingwindows 7

I setup my router to forward port 80 to the PC hosting my web site. As a result, I am able to access this url (Don't bother clicking on it, it's just an example):
http://my.url.com/

When i click on this link while running on the web sever, it works:
http://localhost:8080/tfs/web/

I also forward port 8080 to the same web server box

But when I try to access this url I get the eror "Page Cannot be displayed:"

http://my.url.com:8080/tfs/web/

I fwded port 8080 the same way I fwded port 80. I also turned off Windows Firewall, in case it was blocking port 8080.

Any theories why port 80 works but 8080 does not?

The following shows my router config on that I am fwding traffic on both port 80 and 8080.

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And I think my fiewall is completely disabled:
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Best Answer

can you connect to port 8080 in the same network segment ? I.E. If you have a switch, can you reach the remote computer on that port ?

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