Hello;
One other possibility is, if your administrators don't want to manage
your Apache setup, perhaps they can be persuaded to manage their own
Apache, a very simple one (which you could build, configure, and deliver
to them). This additional server instance would do nothing except
forward all requests on to your 9080/alternate-443 instance, either via
mod_proxy or mod_rewrite or plain old 'RedirectMatch permanent'. The
reluctant admins have a fairly static, minimalist web server instance to
deal with (no CGI, no htdocs, and so forth), people can use the
un-port-labeled URLs to get in, and you still get to control all the
rest; Andre's suggestions below would still be applicable.
Good luck with your administrative group!
hugh
André Warnier wrote:
Vasanth Kumar ravi wrote:
So i have changed the Listen port as 9080 and defined Virtual hosts
for 9080
and 443.
I tried to access the application using the url's above, but it failed.
Now the question is.
How can I access the application using the same url without
mentioning the
port number on the url.
I m not using any firewall here, so I cannot do a port fwd of 80 to
9080.
Is there any configuration which can be done at the Apache, so that I
can
run it as non root user and access the url without ports mentioned in
it.
Hi.
Apart from the correct answers which other people already gave you,
going back for a minute to your basic question :
You cannot do the above without having something in-between, for the
following reason :
When you type a URL like "http://www.myserver.com"; in a browser, it is
*the browser* which adds the ":80" automatically (*), because that is
the default port for the HTTP protocol.
Similarly, if you type a URL like "https://www.myserver.com";, the
browser will automatically add ":443", because that is the default
port for the HTTPS protocol.
So now, the browser tries to connect to the IP address of the host
"www.myserver.com", on port 80. If on that host, nothing is listening
on that port, the browser is not able to connect.
Since you cannot "tell" all the browsers that access your site, that
they should use another default port for HTTP and HTTPS, there is no
way to change that part.
But note :
If your application is entirely located on that one server, the fact
of having to add ":9080" to the hostname concerns only the *first* URL
link to your site. Once your clients have connected once to
"http://www.myserver.com:9080"; and received the Home page, then as
long as all the links in your application pages do not contain the
"http://www.myserver.com:9080"; part anymore, the browser will
automatically continue to access this same host:port.
(e.g. the links in your Home page are like
<a href="/submenu1.html">Accounting</a>
and not like
<a href="http://www.myserver.com:9080/submenu1.html";>Accounting</a>
)
This may, or may not, be acceptable to you. You will have to be a bit
careful in designing your site, but it can work.
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