Port 443 and 80

[Rayr]

Re: Port 443 and 80

Call Alpha sales on Apache.

Steve,
thanks, What port is WAS on? 81 like you stated before

[Rayr]

Re: Port 443 and 80

Call Alpha sales on Apache.

Steve,
I emailed Richard for info, I also forgot I have the v2 module for Apache and I am reading the Doc now on how to setup WAS to work with it, as a test I will play with WAS and Microsoft IIS to see if I can get things working so for those of us that are already using IIS we dont need Apache.

I will report my findings.

[FrankR]

Re: Port 443 and 80

With all this talk about these 2 particular ports:

Am I not able to set the server to run using Any port I choose?

[Steve Wood]

Re: Port 443 and 80

YOu can choose any unused port. If you use 80 for normal traffic, and 443 for secure traffic, your URL looks like normal. IF you use any other, you have to append the port to the URL, like this:

www.alphatogo.com:92

[Rayr]

Re: Port 443 and 80

YOu can choose any unused port. If you use 80 for normal traffic, and 443 for secure traffic, your URL looks like normal. IF you use any other, you have to append the port to the URL, like this:

www.alphatogo.com:92

Hi Steve,
Looking at your exsample of testing Apache and the secure/none secure site I dont see the port number appended so I assume your serving pages on the normal port 80/443 but what I dont know is what port you have Apache and WAS listing on? it cant be the same ports 80/443, or can it?

[Steve Wood]

Re: Port 443 and 80

When you put Apache in front, they can listen on 80/443 for traffic. Then they transfer the request to the Alpha server, which can be listening on any other port, like 81 or so. Apache is the one listening to incoming traffic, not Alpha. Alpha just gets traffic that is redirected by Apache.

[Rayr]

Re: Port 443 and 80

When you put Apache in front, they can listen on 80/443 for traffic. Then they transfer the request to the Alpha server, which can be listening on any other port, like 81 or so. Apache is the one listening to incoming traffic, not Alpha. Alpha just gets traffic that is redirected by Apache.

Steve,
Ok so Alpha has to be on a different port like 81 but cant be on the same port but one would think that when alpha serves the pages back it would also serve port 81 or what ever port WAS was setup to use because your redirecting the port 80 request.

[Steve Wood]

Re: Port 443 and 80

I can't figure out what you are asking.

[Rayr]

Re: Port 443 and 80

I can't figure out what you are asking.

Sorry, if Apache is redirecting port 80 reqwest to lets say port 81 for WAS the user should get back that reqwest with port 81 attached to the url I would think, at least thats been what I have seen when redirecting pages with Microsoft IIS.

[Steve Wood]

Re: Port 443 and 80

No that's not the case. The user is oblivious to what port is being used and it does not come back in the URL. Fact is, all communication between browser and web server IS on port 80/443 through Apache, regardless of what port Alpha is using.

[Rayr]

Re: Port 443 and 80

No that's not the case. The user is oblivious to what port is being used and it does not come back in the URL. Fact is, all communication between browser and web server IS on port 80/443 through Apache, regardless of what port Alpha is using.

Thank you :)