[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Changing Apache Ports

[Jason Etheridge]

> I am a simple user who is trying to setup evergreen for a small family
> library system. It seems that in my research that verizon blocks port 80.
> Can I change the http port of apache? Will evergreen still function if this
> is done? Or is there a better solution?

Hi Ryan,

There are actually two ports you need to work with, port 80 for HTTP
and port 443 for HTTPS.  I tried remapping these ports in the past (I
think for you) and ran into difficulty.  One thing you might try
doing, however, is running either a VPN or using SSH tunneling.

Client Machine A  (extended family)  <->  Firewall   <-> Server
Machine B (your house)   <-> Client Machine C (your house)

So if the problem is that Machine C can connect to Evergreen on
Machine B, but Machine A can't because you can't host a port-80/443
service past the Verizon Firewall, then you could try running a ssh
server on your side of the firewall, and have Machine A ssh into that
server, and then tunnel Machine B's port 80/443 to Machine A such that
the client on machine A would point to "localhost" port 80/443, and
have it magically connect to Machine B instead.

Of course, ssh (port 22) might be blocked as well.  You may have all
connection requests initiated from the outside blocked, with only
responses to requests that originated from your network allowed back
in.

Does this seem like a tack you might want to try?

-- 
Jason Etheridge
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 | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts
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