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View Full Version : Help needed to get around a fire wall (can't access plesk CP !!!)


hoot
01-30-2002, 08:21 AM
Just brought a new plesk server from rackshack, all is working well and copncidering I'm from Europe the speed is good too !
But 5 days of the week I'm away from my personal computer and the computer I'm on has got a firewall !!
SO i can't access domains that finish with :8443
Like http://IP:8443 so I can't access the control pannel and can't change anything. On my raq it worked fine as it was under /siteadmin and /admin
Is it possible to add an alias so that the server opens the same thing when you open http://IP/siteadmin as when you open http://IP:8443 ???
Or is there a way to get around a firewall as it seems that it is just the url that it doesn't like !!

Please help I'm desperate ... :( ... :bawling:

Hoot

hoot
01-30-2002, 08:27 AM
Also I've been trying to set up a system so that I could access all my domains with http://www.domain1.com/domain/domain2.com
but only with domain1.com (so I don't want to add the alias to the httpd.conf

This is what I did but no good :
I created a file called vhost.conf with just :
AliasMatch ^/domain/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/$1/httpdocs/$3
in it then uploaded it to www.domain.com then I entered telnet(ssh) got root access, went to the /domain1.com/conf directory and did wget
http://www.domain.com/vhost.conf then I rebooted apache like this :
su -
/usr/local/psa/rc.d/httpd restart

But when I go to www.domain.com/domain/domain.com I get an error saying that it could not find the file !

Please help me with this too ... I've already managed to do the same thing on the cobbolt any it works fine ...

Wolfy
01-30-2002, 09:09 AM
HTTP Tunnel is installed on my laptop - so if I'm behind a firewall I can still use Chat/ICQ etc - its a great little product : http://www.http-tunnel.com/HT_Products_Consumer.asp
As far as I'm aware you should be able to configure it to connect to the admin port on your webserver from behind a firewall.

hoot
01-30-2002, 09:41 AM
Thanks, would be great if I was using my own computer but I'm not and I haven't got admin access so I can't install programs (I've just got my own virtual partition but I can't access the windows installation etc ... and it seems that there aren't the right dlls on it for it to work ...
Anyone know how to set the server ...

Hoot

kcoster
01-30-2002, 03:06 PM
HTTP-Tunnel is just one exe no installation is required :)

hoot
01-30-2002, 03:10 PM
It's ok now,
It wasn't a firewall problem I contacted the admin and he fixed it (ssl ports higher than 500 didn't work)

hoot