Webmin / Usermin and port blocking

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Feb 28 23:12:54 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 23:01 +0000, Bob Brennan wrote:
> > You can bind both services to different ports of choice.
> > 
> > $ grep 10010 /etc/webmin/*
> > /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf:port=10010
> > 
> > You can do this by hand editing the configuration file or inside the web
> > browser surface of the tool.
> > 
> > Alexander
> 
> Sorry - let me re-state the problem. I want to access from a computer
> that is blocked from directly accessing any ports other than http:80.
> I can't even use a POP or SMTP connection to the outside world because
> ports 25 and 110 requests are blocked, so
> http://myserver.net:anynumber will not work. It would have to be as
> http://myserver.net/usermin.
> 
> The question is how can I (or "can I") route a request to an http:
> directory or file to the Usermin interface on localhost:20000? Or
> access the Usermin pages as normal html/php/whatever directories/files
> instead of a port interface.
----
if this machine is NOT a webserver - Alexander's answer is the best
answer...add port 80 to config of usermin or another way is to use that
machine or another machine (not on your company's network) to redirect
port 80 requests to port 20000 of your server...iptables command can do
that.

Craig




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