On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Mike Hagerty <hager...@bc.edu> wrote:
> Okay, here is my limited understanding of apache ... > When you set the port to 8000 in /etc/apache/httpd.conf - you are telling > apache to listen on port 8000 > for requests to serve, rather than on the default port (80). > > However, this means that users must access your site by adding ":8000" to > the url in their browser. > > I cannot use the default port (80) because it is behind a firewall at the > university where I work. > If I use that port, then I can access my site from an IP address within our > domain, but not from an outside > IP, which renders it useless to me. Presumably the firewall will not allow > communications to port 80 (or any port < 1024) on > any machine (other than their official servers I suppose) from an outside > IP. > > When I say that I cannot receive traffic on the default port (80), this is > what I mean. > > I guess the answer here is that there is no way around it - if a browser > does not specify the port in the url request, > then it will automatically send the request to port 80 on the server and > the firewall will block it before it reaches my server ... > > > > > On Feb 28, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Eric Covener wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Mike Hagerty <hager...@bc.edu> wrote: >> >> I'm kind of surprised (doubtful) that I would be the first person to ask >>> this -- other sites that have to use higher ports must wonder if the >>> added >>> burden of remembering/typing the port no. in the url deters users from >>> finding their site (?) >>> >> >> You're not. If you can't receive traffic on port the default port, you >> can't receive traffic on the default port. >> >> -- >> Eric Covener >> cove...@gmail.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. >> See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org >> " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > > You need to use some port forwarding service like no-ip, etc. which will work if and only if your machine has a public IP. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com
