Is it a good idea to change the default port for the Weewx server on my Pi
from 80 to something else that's not so common? I'd like to be able to
access my weather station feed over from WAN but am hesitant to just port
forward my Pi's IP address out into the wild on port 80. I have a password
set for the Pi login already. On top of that, if it's HTTP, is the login
password being sent in plain text over the connection? Do I understand that
correctly? If somebody was snooping wouldn't they see it?
It's becoming increasingly worrisome all of these internet of things (IoT)
devices are lacking decent security, so I've been focused on securing my IP
camera's, NAS boxes, etc, lately.
My understanding of how my Weewx on my Pi is:
Weewx running as a daemon (service/background process).
Apache2 is the web server so a user can access the Weewx service (daemon)
from a browser on LAN/WAN (if port forwarded).
- Apache2 runs in the background and is the "gatekeeper" to the
services that request a browser-based information request.
- Services get access *through *the Apache server to the
destination port it's assigned to. In Weewx's case it's "/weewx".
BUT, if the port to Apache is 80, and that directs to Weewx, then how would
I set up multiple WAN access, say if I had a webcam service running on the
same Pi?
Hope *some *of that made some sense...
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