It's most likely not Apache httpd... which is why it's not already on port 80. He's probably using Apache Tomcat, which listens on an alternate port (8080) to not conflict with a concurrently running Apache httpd on port 80.
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 11:07 -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > Michael J McCafferty wrote: > > All, > > I have a customer that we are redirecting inbound connections to port > > 80 to port 8080 for him, using our equipment in front of his servers. > > However, that equipment is being replaced and the the same functionality > > is not going to be available on the new gear. > > The customers OS is CentOS 5. I need to make the correct iptables rules > > on his servers to do this on each host instead of putting something in > > front of his servers to do it... > > At the risk of sounding stupid, why don't the individual servers that > want to receive inbound port 80 just configure their apache(?) to listen > on 80? > > >..Do I really need to do NAT on the local > > servers to make this work ? I have been using PF on BSD for firewalls > > for so long, I think I do not know what I need to do on the RedHat box > > to make this redirect happen. > > > > In PF it's just: > > rdr on $public proto tcp from any to <customer-IP> port 80 -> > > <customer-IP> port 8080 > > > > How do I do it in RedHat ? All of the docs I can find seem to discuss > > how to do it as a network firewall. > > > > Regards, > ..jim > > -- ************************************************************ Michael J. McCafferty Principal, Security Engineer M5 Hosting http://www.m5hosting.com You can have your own custom Dedicated Server up and running today ! RedHat Enterprise, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and more ************************************************************ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
