Deprecated Darkstar fourms

So, I forwarded the ports and i can connect, but my search server is not working now, I don't know which port to forward for it.

my zoneip is the same as the whatsmyip site, I am able to connect to my own, and I haven't opened the ports yet (Haven't checked which ones yet.) but I am not sure if that should matter since both machines are on my home network :/ I will try opening them though.

I closed the server clients and restarted them, but to no avail. I ran the query, do I need to change server config?

I made a server using the 127.0.0.1 settings, but now I want to change my server settings so others may log on, I ran a query on navicat to change my IP address, but it still isn't allowing people to connect that way, I can still get on with the client on the host machine, but my other machine is re...