topic Re: port forwarding in Operating System - HP-UX

port forwarding

navin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:32:10 GMT

Hello All i have a Itanium server which runs an application at 7001 port. The application is accessed through the web as http://servername:7001 . Now clients wants to access it as http://servername -
So i would like to know how can forward requests to port 80 to 7001 .If i do that should i be able to access the application just by servername.please advice
Thanks

Re: port forwarding

Ivan Krastev — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:01:31 GMT

If the application is based on the apache - some specific java/php application then just edit configuration file of the web server and set port to 80.

Packet forwarding you can do with ipfilter - http://docs.hp.com/en/B9901-90042/B9901-90042.pdf

regards,
ivan

Re: port forwarding

navin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:10:44 GMT

Ivan ,
You are right the application has a porperties config file and defines port like this.

app.name.port = 7001

Can i edit it to 80 .

But the app only runs on port 7001/
Please advice
Thansk Much

Re: port forwarding

rick jones — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:31:15 GMT

If the application can setup its listen socket with priviledges, and nothing else is trying to listen on port 80 (or at least not on "ip address of servername" and port 80) you should be able to edit the config file and point it at port 80 rather than 7001 and not need any port forwarding.