Re: [cobalt-users] Web server configuration questions

[Jay Summers <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> I would not recommend it, the admin server runs on its own
>> version of httpd,
>> separate from the regular httpd process that controls your hosted
>> web site.
>> I guess you could, but you would have to write quite a bit of
>> extra stuff in
>> the httpd.conf file and they *may* break Cobalt's special sauce.
>> 
>> Is it a firewall issue?

> Yeah, I tend to work at a lot of sites that have firewalls.  Also, I
> recommend to my clients that they not run processes on anything but the IANA
> standard port.  Hope this doesn't start too much of an off topic discussion
> ;-).  Anyways, I did a little checking into the guts of the Qube, and came
> to the same conclusion about the second HTTPD process.  I wonder what would
> happen if I were to change it to 443... I haven't seen any of the default
> pages that use that port, and a netstat -an didn't have anything listening
> on 443.  I figure that I could change the 81 to 443, but anyone know enough
> about Apache to tell me what I'd have to do to get the 444 moved over to
> 443?

IIRC, port 443 is typically used for SSL. You might want to use a different
port.

I believe if you wanted to change it, it would be in
/etc/admserv/conf/httpd.conf.

This is the line:

# Port: The port the standalone listens to. For ports < 1023, you will
# need httpd to be run as root initially.

Port 81

This is how it is on my Raq2, but I'm not sure what you are using.

HTH,
j