On Tue, 2008-07-22 22:30:15 -0700, vinod bhasi wrote:

Hi,   Please help me with stunnel port forwarding . My apache is running at port  8000 .I want this to be forwarded to 80 so that normal users dont need to specify the port number . Can anyone help me with the configuration in both client and server side .Im confused as stunnel wont run with same port used by apache. Any help will be appreciated

I'm not sure I understand what you want to accomplish.

If you just want to forward TCP port 80 to TCP port 8000 in order to have the clients connect to port 80 while the server is listening on port 8000, _without_ establishing a secure tunnel, then stunnel is not the tool you are looking for. You might take a look at e.g. the 'redir' utility (http://sammy.net/~sammy/hacks/redir-2.2.1.tar.gz).

On the other hand, if you want to set up a secure tunnel, you wouldn't want it to listen on port 80, which is the plain http port. When using https, the users would still have to specify the port number then. You'd want stunnel to accept connections on the https port 443 (and to connect to port 8000) then.

HTH,

Ludolf