[thelist] Aliasing Port 8080 to 80 (was: Rewrite rule "translator")

deke web at master.gen.in.us
Mon Apr 16 11:28:13 CDT 2001


On 16 Apr 2001, at 16:29, Philippe Jadin posted a message which said:

> > You simply append it to the end of the regular URL: foo.bar.com:8080.
> There
> > is no other way to access that I know and you can't display it without the
> > port. Now the question is, can Philippe add another IP to the machine he
> is
> > using? If yes, then simply run Zope on that address at port 80. Otherwise
> he
> > is stuck using a different port number...
 
> That's what I feared. Another ip is not an option for now...
 
> I thought using some apache rewriting, but it's probably not an option.
> (ideas?)

You *could* have the server on port 80 fetch the data from the
server on port 8080 and pass it along, but that's *definitely* not
an elegant solution. I'd be sorely tempted to go ahead and use 
a RedirectMatch directive, even though the URL box will show 
the port 8080 usage.

deke




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