"I do not understand why you are not doing this in your webserver. Please explain. Which webserver is involved?"
-I need to avoid running the webserver as root at all costs. Port 80 is reserved for use by root, so I need to find another way to get access to port 80. Brad Mann Software Engineer - Information Access Services HARRIS Corporation / GCSD (321) 984-6292 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of G. Roderick Singleton Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:27 AM To: ipfilter list Subject: RE: Easy port forwarding question On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 09:36 -0400, Mann, Bradley wrote: > Thanks again, > > For whatever reason, I simply can't get this to work. I tried your two > rdr rules, reloaded them into ipnat, but I am still unable to connect to > the webserver from my client. For clarity's sake, let me draw a picture > of my setup: > > > |------------| |------------| > | | | Solaris 10 | > | Client |------------>| ipfilter | > | | | webserver | > |------------| |------------| > > There are no machines "behind" my server. All that I am looking to do is > prevent the client from having to type http://serveraddr:8080. I would > like ipfilter (or ipnat) on the server to redirect all requests on port > 80 to port 8080, so the client only needs to navigate to > http://serveraddr. Having the webserver listen on another port is not an > option. Can ipfilter accomplish this, and if not, is there anything that > will? I do not understand why you are not doing this in your webserver. Please explain. Which webserver is involved? --
