I have a wood pellet boiler that is connected via ethernet cable to my home
router. I can access the boiler to perform various functions whilst on the
local LAN but not externally. There is no way to password protect this page
so I didn't want to forward the ports and make it available for everyone.
The internal IP address of this is 192.168.1.194

To get around this I bought a raspberry pi and installed Apache on it. The
IP address of this is 192.168.1.168. I created a simple password protected
webpage with the link to the boiler IP address and port forwarded this.

I can access the Apache web server when internally on the LAN and use the
boiler control page, however I can't get the boiler control page to display
when accessing the webssever from an external IP. I can access the
webssever externally but when I click on the boiler link it tells me that
it cannot be found.

I can also successfully ping the boiler IP address from the raspberry pi.

Is there something I am missing ?

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