Topic: Can only connect via HTTPS

[Mike Fegan]

Yesterday I was at work, and tried to connect to my web site the same way I have been connecting to it for months, via HTTP. I kept timing out. Finally, I tried connecting via HTTPS, and whamo, my site comes right up. I rebooted my e-smith server, no go. How do I enable HTTP again?

[Scott Smith]

The problem may not be with your e-smith server. Your ISP may have started blocking inbound HTTP (port 80) access.

Scott

[Simon Goh]

My ISP have blocked may have started blocking inbound HTTP (port 80) access, i too can only connect vail https. Anyone have any idea how i can change the inbound HTTP (port 80) to someother port example 9090 ?

[Scott Smith]

This would be a nice web manager option, since more and more ISPs are blocking specific service ports or in some cases all ports below 1024. One for the wishlist, I suppose.

Scott

[Metal Mick]

Simon Goh wrote:
>
> My ISP have blocked may have started blocking inbound HTTP
> (port 80) access, i too can only connect vail https. Anyone
> have any idea how i can change the inbound HTTP (port 80) to
> someother port example 9090 ?

Hi Simon,

Edit "/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf"  [template]

Metal Mick

[Mike Fegan]

That must be it....good ole Time Warner. Thanks for your help.

[Simon Goh]

Mike Fegan , You got it working?

[Rangi Biddle]

The easiest option like someone has already stated is to edit the httpd.conf file for apache and change the port it listens on from 80 to whatever port number.  Or you can as an option have your default web server listening on port 80 and add a virtual host to listen on another port until your ISP removes the port 80 block if that is what they are doing.  If they are blocking port 80 network wide then tell them to hurry up and patch their servers!!  There are also other options to look at...another option for you is to get a free sub-domain and have it redirect to your IP on a different port so that your site will always be available....that is...if it's a public website.

Anyway I hope what I have suggested helps.

[Rangi Biddle]

The easiest option like someone has already stated is to edit the httpd.conf file for apache and change the port it listens on from 80 to whatever port number.  Or you can as an option have your default web server listening on port 80 and add a virtual host to listen on another port until your ISP removes the port 80 block if that is what they are doing.  If they are blocking port 80 network wide then tell them to hurry up and patch their servers!!  There are also other options to look at...another option for you is to get a free sub-domain and have it redirect to your IP on a different port so that your site will always be available....that is...if it's a public website.

Anyway I hope what I have suggested helps.

[Mike Fegan]

Thanks for the input. It was extremely helpful.

MF

[Mike Fegan]

Thanks for the input. It was extremely helpful.

MF