Topic: how to change apache default listening port on sme 5.6

[John]

Does anyone know how to do this?? I need apache to listen to another port instead of port 80..I've searched and i found a few how to's but there for sme 5.1.2
sme 5.6 doesn't have a file called 80Aliases00 that the how to for 5.1.2 says u also have to modify

[Jon Blakely]

John,

Try this thread

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=2982.msg10079#msg10079

Jon

[CH Cheah]

John, this should help you.

http://www.tech-geeks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=1&showtopic=20

[John]

Thanks tried that early this moring still with no luck...
i changed 80 to 6329 in the following files
05port
80virtualhosta
80namevirtualhosts
35listen80

expanded the template restarted httpd
I'm sure the new port works cause i can only access my photogallery and server-manager if i specify port 6329 but only from my internal lan
No one can access it from outside my lan they get page can't be displayed
Even tried forwardingexternal port 6329 to 192.168.241.89:6329 on the sme internal nic still no go

[CH Cheah]

Is www listening at port 6329
What does the following tell you

netstat -a |grep LISTEN
netstat -a -n |grep LISTEN

[Kevin]

After making my custom templates I could also access my web pages only on the local LAN.  Read elsewhere in these forums that the port opening RPM doesn't really do anything.................. but after I installed the rpm and opened the new port I could get to my web pages from the internet.  It worked for me!

Also, do you have a router between your server and modem?  If so make certain to redirect your new port to the server or put the server in the DMZ.

[Charlie Brady]

Kevin wrote:

> After making my custom templates I could also access my web
> pages only on the local LAN.  Read elsewhere in these forums
> that the port opening RPM doesn't really do
> anything.................. but after I installed the rpm and
> opened the new port I could get to my web pages from the
> internet.  It worked for me!

It's not that it doesn't do anything, it's that it doesn't do what many people apparently think it does, and what it does do is better done another way.

In your case, you need a custom template for /etc/rc.d/init.d/masq/45AllowHTTP and change port 80 to the port that you now have apache listening to. Activate that template, and you'll now find that you can remove the "port opening" contrib.

You changed the port that apache listened to, but didn't change the pinhole through which connections are allowed in through the firewall.

Charlie

[Kevin]

Thanks for the tip Charlie.  Since it's a better way of doing things I will make the changes this weekend.

Kevin