On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Roger Keays wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Joe Hu wrote: > > > Recently I found out that port 80 of my cable-modem-enabled debian box is > > filtered by my broadband provider. Nap shows the following: > > > > 80 filtered top http > > > > I cannot connect to my apache server using default port 80, although other > > ports, like 8080 works. I wonder if there's any way to make port 80 open to > > the outside.
> I have the same problem. Tunnelling is an option (as suggested in a > previous post), but I am beginning to think that apache's mod_rewrite will > do a better job. > > My idea is to run apache (port 80) on a friends machine and mod_rewrite > all the url's to point to port 8080 on my machine. That way users can > enter in easy urls, and my friend doesn't have to pay for (much) of the > extra traffic generated. Why not simply publish the URL http://your_machine:8080/ instead of the URL http://your_machine/ ? BTW: I would use port 81 or some other free port below 1024 , to make sure that simple user processes won't cause any problems. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
