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zinpin
Junior Member
Australia
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 Posted - 02 October 2003 : 05:04:47
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Can I divert port 80 (http)traffic to port 443(https)?
I have tried but my browser always comes up with page not found.
Ive done a google search but can't find an answer
is there a solution to this or am i going round in circles. :(
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Edited by - zinpin on 02 October 2003 05:15:41 |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 October 2003 : 06:24:09
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firstly, why do you want to do that, what are you trying to accomplish ?
if you have a secure site set up correctly all traffic should automatically get sent through the https port. |
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zinpin
Junior Member
Australia
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Posted - 02 October 2003 : 07:24:03
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thanks Huwr, im doing this more as an experiment than anything else. im not trying to setup a secure site, i don't have any certificates installed, just to learn how the port thing works and if it can be done.
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 October 2003 : 07:30:56
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| it is possible to remap ports, but for ssl if the pages are set as secure the translation to https should be transparent to the user. |
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zinpin
Junior Member
Australia
202 Posts |
Posted - 02 October 2003 : 08:00:25
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great, I guess the part that im interested in is the remapping ports. I assume then that the content will appear the same as if someone accessed the page via http. If that idea is right, how would I go about remapping port 80 to port 443 Huwr?
Oh, I should say at this point that Im using win2k.
Just to clarify... I have default.asp in the wwwroot folder. My test was to somehow get https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ to display the default.asp page.
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 October 2003 : 08:10:13
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| I am still not sure what you are trying to accomplish, but the use of https means you MUST have a secure site set up, you can not divert https requests to a non secure one. |
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davemaxwell
Access 2000 Support Moderator
USA
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Posted - 02 October 2003 : 08:19:03
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| As soon as you set the secure site up, it will show the same page as if you've got the non-secure site set up. If you're getting a page not found under https, then you've got a problem with the certificate and will probably have to get another one. |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 02 October 2003 : 08:22:57
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| You could just install a self signed cert as well for playing around without having to spend any dollars on a "real" certificate. |
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 02 October 2003 : 08:42:03
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| Also I have found www.instantssl.com to work very well and they are very reasonably priced if you just want to go that route. |
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zinpin
Junior Member
Australia
202 Posts |
Posted - 02 October 2003 : 08:52:17
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its clear to me now that I'm in way over my head. what i was trying to do is setup a little webserver, so that i don't have to be limited by the 10mgs of space my isp is giving me. The reason why i wanted to divert port 80 to 443 is because my isp has blocked port 80 but has 443 open. So i thought if it can be done easily, I could keep my site up, and have some of its pages linking back to my local machine.
Nevertheless thank you all for your help.
just out of curiosity though, how do you go about setting up a small webserver for one. I'm not interested in hosting but just for my stuff and a couple of friends.
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
1318 Posts |
Posted - 02 October 2003 : 10:46:35
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| But how would you do that Huw? Domain forwarding? How can you forward a domain, and still have it set up for that site? How could you use a port tunneler if the host blocks port 80? You would need th change the port before you get to the actual server. I think in either case you would need to have 2 seperate domain names or just use the ip address after the domain forward or port tunneling. |
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Podge
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Ireland
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 02 October 2003 : 11:34:01
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You would use Port Forwarding/Tunneling as Huw said, do you have a firewall or router in your setup at home ? most of these allow you to forward packets from one port to another port on your network.
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If you use port 443 you will have
It should work ok like I posted above, becuase the browser won't actually try to connect using SSL if you don't put HTTPS in the URL ... at least I'm fairly confident that should work, it's not something I've ever had the need or desire to try/test |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 October 2003 : 17:04:31
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Originally posted by sr_erick
But how would you do that Huw? Domain forwarding? How can you forward a domain, and still have it set up for that site? How could you use a port tunneler if the host blocks port 80? You would need th change the port before you get to the actual server. I think in either case you would need to have 2 seperate domain names or just use the ip address after the domain forward or port tunneling.
It is fairly simple using an application called Octagate. You point your domain at the octagate server, then using the server you can translate the ports to be transparent to the user. as an example.
the website http://www.dipex.org if you ping this address you will get an ip of 81.3.74.32 (my octagate server), but the actual website is running on http://81.3.74.41:8080 |
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