On 28/11/16 14:01, Nick wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 12:40:58 +0000 > <d.l...@surrey.ac.uk> wrote: >> Because I spend a lot of my time travelling, all my music and radio >> downloads are stored on a cloud VPS server. I can't really block >> down by IP address because I don't really know where I'll be >> connecting from. ... > I recommend SSH for getting arbitrary services across the internet > securely. Have it listening on port 443 and you can get to it from > anywhere, even through restrictive firewalls.
An alternative, which I use for several services I want access to while I am travelling, is to run Apache as a reverse proxy. I.e. run apache on your VPS but configure it not to actually serve any content but set up a Location which uses ProxyPass to connect to your get_iplayer.cgi running on 127.0.0.1:8080 (or whatever -- but not running on the externally visible IP address). You can then protect access to that Location using the full power of apache access controls. I use this to access my Tivo at home while I am travelling, for example. Of course, if get_iplayer.cgi can run as a real CGI process (I don't use it so I don't know) then just provide access to that via Apache and don't bother with the reverse proxy. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer