Accessing multiple ports.. through port 80?

**XA04** · 17-01-2007, 10:20 PM

Hello,
Just wondering if there was a way you could setup a web server, so that say if you go to a site like "example.com/test", it will take you to say... example.com:12345

Just asking because I need to access other services on a port other than port 80. Like, example.com:80 would work, but example.com:12345 wouldn't, so by using "example.com/test" it will work the same as example.com:12345 but make it look like it is using port 80.

Hope that makes sense :\

Thanks!

**Agent** · 17-01-2007, 10:40 PM

edit - think i've got the wrong end of what you were asking here.

**directhex** · 17-01-2007, 11:04 PM

Originally Posted by XA04

Hello,
Just wondering if there was a way you could setup a web server, so that say if you go to a site like "example.com/test", it will take you to say... example.com:12345

Just asking because I need to access other services on a port other than port 80. Like, example.com:80 would work, but example.com:12345 wouldn't, so by using "example.com/test" it will work the same as example.com:12345 but make it look like it is using port 80.

Hope that makes sense :\

Thanks!

you should be able to do this with apache and iptables on linux

**XA04** · 18-01-2007, 06:47 PM

I can get apache running fine on the server. But I'm not running Linux so I can't really do that..

@ Agent: Don't know what you said, but it's nothing illegal I assure you

Splash · 18-01-2007, 06:55 PM

XA04 - I'm not 100% certain what you're trying to achieve here - are you trying to present content that would normally be presented on a different port via port 80? If so I don't think it can be done. My initial thought was that you were trying to access a port via a hostname - for instance one of my webservers has www.myserver.com/cpanel which is effectively www.myserver.com:2082, but I believe this is done using (as hexxeh pointed out) iptables and apache.

**gabriel** · 18-01-2007, 09:04 PM

any httpx can do that, you can even use privoxy a web proxy and under the filter url put the url and the redirectors,

moreover new routers can do the url redirectors as well

**XA04** · 18-01-2007, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by Splash

XA04 - I'm not 100% certain what you're trying to achieve here - are you trying to present content that would normally be presented on a different port via port 80? If so I don't think it can be done. My initial thought was that you were trying to access a port via a hostname - for instance one of my webservers has www.myserver.com/cpanel which is effectively www.myserver.com:2082, but I believe this is done using (as hexxeh pointed out) iptables and apache.

Yeah, you've got the right idea there. If www.myserver.com/cpanel works basically the same as www.myserver.com:2082 then thats what I'd like to be able to do, but not for just one service, but many.

Originally Posted by gabriel

any httpx can do that, you can even use privoxy a web proxy and under the filter url put the url and the redirectors,

moreover new routers can do the url redirectors as well

Hmm, I'll look into that.. I want something on my server though, don't want to be using a third party website.

But just for clarification, I would like to do this on a Windows system, not Linux.

Thanks

**Agent** · 18-01-2007, 11:36 PM

Originally Posted by XA04

@ Agent: Don't know what you said, but it's nothing illegal I assure you

ermmmmm ?

Splash · 19-01-2007, 04:08 PM

If that's what you're after then http://www.drewnoakes.com/snippets/C...MultiplePorts/ should help. I don't know what webserver you're running, but Apache can run on Windows, and I think that does what you need.

**b0redom** · 19-01-2007, 04:41 PM

So you want:

http://www.mydomain.com/directory

to go to

http://www.mydomain.com:25323

Right?

If that's the case, the easiest way is to do a HTTP redirect:

eg:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <title>HTTP Redirect</title>
  <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; URL=http://www.mydomain.com:25323/">
</head>

<body>
  If you are not redirected in 10 seconds please click here <a href=
  http://www.mydomain.com:25323/>&quot;http://www.mydomain.com:25323/&quot;</a></h1>
</body>
</html>

All webservers are basically the same regardless of port, they're probably just looking in a different DocumentRoot. You could also therefore just add a mapping for /directory which maps to c:/documents/served/on/port25323

**yamangman** · 19-01-2007, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by b0redom

So you want:

http://www.mydomain.com/directory

to go to

http://www.mydomain.com:25323

Right?

If that's the case, the easiest way is to do a HTTP redirect:

eg:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <title>HTTP Redirect</title>
  <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; URL=http://www.mydomain.com:25323/">
</head>

<body>
  If you are not redirected in 10 seconds please click here <a href=
  http://www.mydomain.com:25323/>&quot;http://www.mydomain.com:25323/&quot;</a></h1>
</body>
</html>

All webservers are basically the same regardless of port, they're probably just looking in a different DocumentRoot. You could also therefore just add a mapping for /directory which maps to c:/documents/served/on/port25323

That's not what he wants

**XA04** · 20-01-2007, 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by Splash

If that's what you're after then http://www.drewnoakes.com/snippets/C...MultiplePorts/ should help. I don't know what webserver you're running, but Apache can run on Windows, and I think that does what you need.

Ah, yes, that looks about right! Will give that a go tonight!

Thanks for the help.

**XA04** · 20-01-2007, 11:25 PM

Just noticed that the above link is for an older version of Apache, I'm using version 2.. I tried the code still, I can't uncomment the part it asks though because it doesn't exist, but I can add the bit it asks, but it doesn't do anything..

Splash · 21-01-2007, 11:39 AM

NameVirtualHost Directive
Description: Designates an IP address for name-virtual hosting

Originally Posted by Apache Manual page

Syntax: NameVirtualHost addr[: port]
Context: server config
Status: Core
Module: core

The NameVirtualHost directive is a required directive if you want to configure name-based virtual hosts.

Although addr can be hostname it is recommended that you always use an IP address, e.g.

NameVirtualHost 111.22.33.44

With the NameVirtualHost directive you specify the IP address on which the server will receive requests for the name-based virtual hosts. This will usually be the address to which your name-based virtual host names resolve. In cases where a firewall or other proxy receives the requests and forwards them on a different IP address to the server, you must specify the IP address of the physical interface on the machine which will be servicing the requests. If you have multiple name-based hosts on multiple addresses, repeat the directive for each address.
Note

Note, that the "main server" and any _default_ servers will never be served for a request to a NameVirtualHost IP address (unless for some reason you specify NameVirtualHost but then don't define any VirtualHosts for that address).

Optionally you can specify a port number on which the name-based virtual hosts should be used, e.g.

NameVirtualHost 111.22.33.44:8080

That's for Apache 2 - this seems to be what you're after (I think!) - more gubbins here

**XA04** · 22-01-2007, 05:42 PM

That's pretty confusing - what I tried in the config file was:

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog "logs/rewrite_log"
RewriteLogLevel 0
RewriteRule ^/address(.*) http://address.com$1 [P]
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>

But I can't seem to get it to work still? When I restart Apache it starts up ok, but it's still not doing what I want..

**XA04** · 23-01-2007, 07:54 PM

Bump..

Thanks

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