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Fullmoon
Fullmoon
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March 27, 2018
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port forwarding without typing any port after the address

  • March 27, 2018
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I read someone already posted the same question, but nowhere to find. 

example: www.x.x.x.y:8080 was properly configured in my VIP settings. Now, how do i enforce when my users want to access our web server it will divert to our web server page without typing 8080 after the address? 

 

What possible changes on my dns server which is hosting the said web site? appreciate your feedback. thank you

 

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    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    March 27, 2018

    hi,

     

    in short: no way.

    Longer:

    This is not a question of configuration of your firewall but one of internet protocol standards.

    For the "http://" prefix the protocol (HTTP) has the default port 80, for "https://" it's 443.

    There is no way to change the protocol's default settings worldwide just because you change something on your FGT.

    rwpatterson
    rwpatterson
    New Member
    March 27, 2018

    As Ede said this is not a firewall function, but a function of your web server. You would have to build a redirect into your server's configuration to send port 80 traffic to port 8080. If you use Apache it would be something similar to:

     

    <VirtualHost *:80>     ServerName    host.domain.com     ServerAlias    publichost.domain.com     redirect /    http://publichost.domain.com:8080/ </VirtualHost>

     

    Make sure your web server is configured to listen on the redirected port or it will simply hang there. If you click on the link in my signature, you will see that I am doing the same exact thing to port 5190.

    Markus
    Markus
    New Member
    March 28, 2018

    Another (not comfortable way) is to do port forwarding with your vip. The disadvantage of this "solution" - you have to do this then for any other port you use e.g. 443 to 443 etc.

    Fullmoon
    FullmoonAuthor
    New Member
    March 29, 2018

    guys, thank you so much for your replies. deeply appreciated.

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