Topic: Opening Ports

[Liam]

Hi,
I would like to open port 85 on my SME 5.5 Server and Gateway to use for apache. I know how to make apache listen to port 85. But I dont know how to edit the firewall rules. Can someone please give me and link to some information or tell me what the best thing to do is?
Thankyou

[Terry Brummell]

Add the "Port Opening" contrib?  Search for it, you'll find many posts about it...

[Liam]

cool. Thanks very much

[Nathan Fowler]

Additionally, you may want to research the IPChains howto:

/sbin/ipchains -A input -p tcp --dport 83 --source 0.0.0.0/0 -j ACCEPT

[Charlie Brady]

Liam wrote:

> I would like to open port 85 on my SME 5.5 Server and Gateway
> to use for apache. I know how to make apache listen to port
> 85. But I dont know how to edit the firewall rules.

You won't need to. The correct fix for your problem is to find the template fragment which opens port 80 for apache access, make a custom template which is a copy of that file, and change port 80 to port 85. People here will likely help you if you need more detailed instructions.

Charlie