Port forwarding for Monkey/verizon

Forum: Networking
Topic: Port forwarding for Monkey/verizon
started by: MrBear37

Posted by MrBear37 on June 05 2006,11:22

Good Morning

I have a question that possibly some of you might have run across. Here is the set up :

Verizon DSL
Westel 327-W router
Monkey web server..

Here is the deal.. I want to serve some family web content.
Verizon has port 80 blocked. ( and possibly port 25 as well as I read in another blog). I can see in my router configuration
where it says give the application and Port to forward.
( I beleive the info is on http://Portforward.com )
anyway.. I beleive that in order to choose another port ( say 8080- this is what is necessary to put in the router configuration ? or is there something in the Monkey.conf file that needs to be tweeked as well ?

OK.. now that I have once again aired my lack of knowledge .. I will go back to lurk mode.

THanks in advance !

Mark

Posted by clacker on June 05 2006,15:06

MrBear37, monkey has a "port" setting in the file

/opt/monkey/conf/monkey.conf

Which can can change from 80 to whatever you need it to be. It's in the section labeled port. If you changed it to 8080 (for example), then people can connect to your website using an address in the form

< http://127.0.0.1:8080/index.html >

That way you don't need to port forward, you just have monkey serve the pages on a different port.

Posted by MrBear37 on June 05 2006,19:05

Clacker, Thanks for the info.. and of course you knew I would ask some more questions

So if I change the conf file to Port 8080 as we stated previously.. then they would have to use the IP and then PORT. Now.. I have recently gotten a domain name registered and want to just use that for my site. The person who registered the domain pointed the domain at my public IP address. Here are the questions :

1) if I have changed the port in the conf file.. do I still have to forward the 8080 port for people outside to see it. ?

2) Do I need to change the IP that the host is pointing to - to reflect the port number as well for the domain to work ?

OK.. stopping here for a wisdom break ..

Thanks again !

Mark

Posted by clacker on June 05 2006,22:21

1) if I have changed the port in the conf file.. do I still have to forward the 8080 port for people outside to see it. ?

No, people will connect to port 8080 on your machine without any forwarding and monkey will "pick up the call" on that port if you set thT port in the monkey conf file. As long as people try to connect to that port (using :8080) and the port isn't blocked by your ISP. I don't know what ports are blocked for you so you'll need to actually try it.

I have no idea about the domain name but it should be OK if they connect to the port you choose if you tell them to connect to it and it's not bloacked.

Posted by 300c_pilot on June 06 2006,08:51

Your ISP may block many ports and you may need to experiment with the port number. Just use one between 1024 & 65,000 and it will work. Don't forget to forward the same port on the firewall to the monkey server.

Also most dsl accounts are on dynamic ip addresses so your ip may change every few days. Some DNS servers will support a dynamic ip, but usally charge for it.
Good luck.