Remove port number from URL

[cpkiran]

I use url

http://myurl:8020/ERC

to access application successfully. But I dont want to use port number in the URL.Would like to access application using

http://myurl/ERC

. I added below entries on httpd.conf file.

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass /ERC

http://myurl:8020/ERC

ProxyPassReverse /ERC

http://myurl:8020/ERC

But I am still not able to access

http://myurl/ERC.

Am I doing any thing wrong.?
Please let me know if there is any way to achieve this.

LoadModule entries are enabled and I have restarted apache.
apache version : 2.2.29

 

[spamjim]

You may be looking at this backwards. How is a client browser supposed to know to connect to a non-standard port when browsers default to seeking port 80?

You might find joy with subdomains that run on the same default port 80 but can point to another service entirely:

http://erc.myurl

 

[cpkiran]

Is there any other way I can achieve what I am looking for ?

 

[ChrisHirst]

Frames or a redirect

Chris.

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[cpkiran]

I tried different settings of 'Redirect' but didn't work.
Probably I am not using in a right way.
Can you please tell me what exactly the 'Redirect' settings I need use?

 

[spamjim]

Redirection means you need to create a landing page on what I assume you already have running on

http://myurl

as port 80, because you are creating a service on an alternate port. From that landing page, you have a few options for redirection.

[ol 1]
[li]displaying a big red flashy button to the user that links to your server on port 8020[/li]
[li]using javascript to redirect to your server on port 8020[/li]
[li]using a htaccess redirect to your server on port 8020[/li]
[/ol]

More info on option 3...

http://mediatemple.net/community/pr...w-do-i-redirect-my-site-using-a-htaccess-file

 

[ChrisHirst]

Or

<?php 
header("location: [URL unfurl="true"]https://domain.tld:8020/folder");[/URL]
exit();

?>

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[cpkiran]

I should have made it more clear.
Apache is listening to port 8020 and below is the setting we have on httpd.conf.
Listen 0.0.0.0:8020
I DONT have any landing page that already running on

http://myurl

as port 80.

Do you know if there is any way to hide port number(8020) from url and users to connect application by using

http://myurl/ERC.

We use linux , and initially we are not able to start apache on port 80 because I believe ports below 1024 are privileged and only root can open listening sockets on them.

 

[spamjim]

I believe your perception about linux and port limits is off.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...ocesses-to-bind-to-privileged-ports-1024-on-l

It looks like you are over-engineering a solution to a problem that never existed, if you had the server configured properly to port 80.

Port limiting is a very small part of server security, and why this limit does not make much sense. Even if you use a >1024 port, there are ways to exploit a poorly configured server.

http://www.staldal.nu/tech/2007/10/31/why-can-only-root-listen-to-ports-below-1024/

 

[cpkiran]

Thank you. I learned something new today..