[york28]

I've been using SSH tunnels to connect to mail and MySQL servers for a while now, with very few problems. Today I decided to try to do that same, but with an Apache server on my web host, so I could use some interactive pages securely.

I can't get it to work. Here's the command I'm using:

ssh -C -N -f -L 8890:localhost:80 user@host.com

Everything appears to go fine (authentication and listening are ok, I ran with -v to check), until I try to open http://localhost:8890 in a browser. Then I get a "No data to load at this location" error in the browser, and in the terminal I get "channel 2: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused".

I've tried removing options, replacing localhost with 127.00.1 like some web pages suggested, but nothing seems to work. Anyone have any ideas as to what might be going wrong?

Thanks for the help.

[Axel]

Try ssh -L 8890:host.com:80 host.com -l user

The command you typed forwards the local port 8890 to the port 80 on your own machine, not on the remote server.

[york28]

Hmm, well, I tried that, and I got teh same error, except it was channel 3 this time instead of 2.

I usually just use SSH Tunnel Manager to configure my tunnels, and it always works for email and MySQL, so I figured that I'd try to copy its syntax in to the terminal and see what happened:

/usr/bin/ssh -N -v -p 22 -c 3des user@host.net -L 8890/localhost/80

And once it connected, an attemp to use a browser on localhost:8890 gave this error in the terminal:

debug1: Connection to port 8890 forwarding to localhost port 80 requested.
debug1: channel 2: new [direct-tcpip]
channel 2: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused
debug1: channel_free: channel 2: direct-tcpip: listening port 8890 for localhost port 80, connect from 127.0.0.1 port 55104, nchannels 3

This exact syntax works fine when used for checking email/using MySQL through, so I am starting to think that it is something specific to Apache, or maybe my web host?

The frustrating part is that I did this previously, a few months ago, and didn't have any problems.....