using RouterOS public IP address from within local network

Hello,

I’m not sure of the correct terminology of what I am trying to do but I feel as though it ought to be able to be done.

My mikrotik router gets a public ip address from my provider. I am trying to point browsers and such from within my local 192.168.88.x network to the public ip address but it doesn’t go anywhere. Is this a firewall nat rule i need to set up? or a zone?

Basically, I have a web server that runs within my local network. I port forward via nat rule the local address and port so that I can access from the internet just fine. I can also point to the local ip address from within the local network and it works just fine. However, when pointing my browser to the public ip address from within, it doesn’t work. Can I make this work?

I am using a 951G-2HnD RouterOS on firmware 3.19

Thanks!

Usually I would call NAT loopback but it is listed in the MikroTik wiki as Hairpin NAT.

Here you go:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Hairpin_NAT