Topic: I REALY NEED TO FORWARD PORT 80

[steven]

Dear All,

I know you would say the answer to the question is Proxypass, but please hear the whole story;

I have a SME in public Server gateway mode. There is a MS IIS5 behind the SME. IIS is using a technique called  "host name header" that scans the header and understand which Virtual host/Directory/Domain need to direct the packet to in IIS. Using proxyPass the IIS would not recognize the host from the header.

I NEED to forward the PORT 80 on eth1 of SME to port 80 on internal IIS server. I have setup SME APACHE to listen on port 5000 instead. Using portforwarding panel I have forwarded the port 80 to internal IIS host port 80. IT DOSN'T work. I understand that I can't forward a port if there is a service associated to that port. I have even stoped SME APACHE, still no luck! Forwarding another port like 8030 works fine but not port 80...

Can any one please explain why this would not work?


Best Regards

Steven