How to access CP from behind firewall.

[nerbonne]

I apologize ahead of time if this is in the wrong spot, but I wasn't clear where to put it.

Ok, here is the scenario:

I am behind a work firewall.

I don't know what outgoing ports are open except that websites on port 80 will work, any sites on a non standard port will not.

My control panel port is

https://url:8443

Traditional proxies do not work for accessing the url.

I know how to change the port using the iptables method mentioned elsewhere on this forum.

My problem is that I can't find a port to put it on that will work with the firewall. Obviously, I can't put it on port 80 since apache is already running on that port.

Or could I put an IPtables rule that maps port 80 traffice for a certain IP or domain to port 8443? Any solution to this would be so awesome.

Thanks.

 

[Press2Esc]

Does the router/firewall have HTTPS (port 443) open a/o forwarded?

P2E

 

[nerbonne]

No one huh?

Can anyone tell me how to modify the following command to route traffic on a certain IP:80 to port 8443?

iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 81 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8443

 

[nerbonne]

Using port 443 really isn't an option because it's a shared server and that would affect all the other sites.

 

[nerbonne]

I got it:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d ip_here --dport 80 -j DNAT --to ip_here:8443