Re: Webmin / Usermin and port blocking

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 01.03.2005 schrieb Bob Brennan um 0:01:

>  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. 
>  bob 
You can do so by configuring Apache using mod_proxy or mod_rewrite.
Please see the Apache documentation. As an *untested* guideline:

a) mod_proxy

    ProxyVia On
    ProxyPass /webmin http://localhost:10000
    ProxyPassReverse /webmin http://localhost:10000

b) mod_rewrite

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^/webmin(.*) http://localhost:10000/$1 [P,L]
    RewriteRule ^proxy:.*  -  [F]

This is given that Apache does server other sites too on standard HTTP
port 80.

Alexander


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