Accessing Internal Server Externally - Issues with NAT

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
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This may seem like a common and simple problem, but after much looking through this forum, I am unable to fix my issue.

I am trying to simply port forward any WAN requests on port 80 and 443, to a server in its own VLAN.
I have setup the port forwards,

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However, attempting to access the server using its domain name from internal, configured with a ddns yields a

Forbidden
Rejected request from RFC1918 IP to public server address
Accessing the domain and IP from outside, cannot connect

I have also setup a NAT Rule, to rewrite sources from WAN to the Server VLAN,

From any zone To Servers. with masquerade

In addition to the NAT rule, a traffic rule has also been made,

from wan to Servers - Accept forward

What is the fix for this issue?

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I have also setup a NAT Rule, to rewrite sources from WAN to the Server VLAN,

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In addition to the NAT rule, a traffic rule has also been made,

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Firewall rules

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The easy and best fix would be overriding the DNS of your external domain locally, pointing to your internal address (dnsmasq/ hostname).

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I am using a reverse proxy on the internal server to allow a differentiating between subdomains, so I don't think that would work?