Re: Port Forwarding Help? (Apache Users)

If your ISP blocks port 80 and port 443, there is no way for you to host the site without a port number.

If you can run a server on those ports, HTTPD would listen there and reverse proxy to the internal port the app is running on (5501?). You would not want to forward 5501 through the router because it would allow people to bypass your reverse proxy.

You prove ownership of the URL by placing a particularly named file in /.well-known/ and the SSL tool will check for it there. This will not work if you aren't on a standard port (80/443).

- Y

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On Sun, Jan 20, 2019, 3:50 PM Osman Zakir <osmanzakir90@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I found out that the problem was that I was using port 8080 which was blocked by my ISP. I managed to get it to work using a different port (port 8443 didn't work either).

Now I need to ask this: if I want to put my app behind Apache's reverse proxy, do I need to set up port forwarding for just the port that I set for the reverse proxy in ProxyPass directive, or do I also have to do it for the one Apache is listening on?

Also, I got a free DynDNS from dynu.com and I'm serving my app on port 5501 on it, but is there no way I can use a URL where specifying the port number isn't a requirement? The URL is http://dragonosman.dynu.net:5501/ . And if I want to get an SSL certificate for it, seeing as I'm hosting it on my own computer with a Dynamic DNS, how do I prove ownership of the domain when I try to use something like this? https://www.sslforfree.com/ .

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