Okay, here is my limited understanding of apache ...When you set the port to 8000 in /etc/apache/httpd.conf - you are telling apache to listen on port 8000
for requests to serve, rather than on the default port (80).However, this means that users must access your site by adding ": 8000" to the url in their browser.
I cannot use the default port (80) because it is behind a firewall at the university where I work. If I use that port, then I can access my site from an IP address within our domain, but not from an outside IP, which renders it useless to me. Presumably the firewall will not allow communications to port 80 (or any port < 1024) on any machine (other than their official servers I suppose) from an outside IP.
When I say that I cannot receive traffic on the default port (80), this is what I mean.
I guess the answer here is that there is no way around it - if a browser does not specify the port in the url request, then it will automatically send the request to port 80 on the server and the firewall will block it before it reaches my server ...
On Feb 28, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Eric Covener wrote:
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Mike Hagerty <hagertmb@xxxxxx> wrote:I'm kind of surprised (doubtful) that I would be the first person to ask this -- other sites that have to use higher ports must wonder if the added burden of remembering/typing the port no. in the url deters users fromfinding their site (?)You're not. If you can't receive traffic on port the default port, you can't receive traffic on the default port. -- Eric Covener covener@xxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------------The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project.See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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