[LON-CAPA-admin] moving behind firewall

[James Mueller]

You can ignore the last message.  Our network person went to the  
machine and looked.  The old IP number had been manually set in /etc/ 
hosts.  Everything is now fine.

-Jim

On Mar 1, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Stuart Raeburn wrote:

>> Now I see from the documentation we need to keep
>> ports 80, 8080, and 5663 open.  Any others?
>
> Use of port 8080 was discontinued with LON-CAPA 2.8, so the required
> ports are now 80 and 5663 (443 if using SSL Apache), if you are
> running 2.8.0 or later.
>
>> Aside from the time it takes for the new IP
>> address to get propagated out to the rest of the world, are there any
>> other things we should be aware of?
>
> There are no additional concerns as long as hostnames remain  
> unchanged.
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> MSU LON-CAPA group
>
> Quoting James Mueller <mueller at pitt.edu>:
>
>> Administration is telling us that we have to move the loncapa server
>> behind a firewall.  Now I see from the documentation we need to keep
>> ports 80, 8080, and 5663 open.  Any others?  When this change occurs
>> (looks like spring break) the IP number will change, although the DNS
>> name can remain the same.  Aside from the time it takes for the new  
>> IP
>> address to get propagated out to the rest of the world, are there any
>> other things we should be aware of?
>>
>> -Jim Mueller
>>
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