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the_glassman · May 29, 2004, 12:20 AM

Hello, I used to host my own site of Road Runner through port 80 and had dnsupdate the info and send it to zone edit. Everything worked fine, then I switched to DSL and they blocked port 80. So I configured Apache to serve from port 8080. I can access my website fine, however is there anyway to get rid of www.yousite.com:8080. I kind of miss just having people typing in the address, now they have to type in the stupid port!

Ways around this? Virtual Host perhaps, something else I could configure with apache or the dns servers?

thanks.

the_glassman · May 29, 2004, 08:26 PM

besson3c · May 29, 2004, 08:51 PM

The best thing you can do is find an ISP where you can host a page that would automatically redirect to the correct URL with the correct port.

If your webpage means something to you though, you're best shelling out for some proper hosting. Most broadband ISPs provide really crappy upload speeds anyway.

KrayZ · May 30, 2004, 12:21 PM

For a fee, you can get URI translation services through businesses like http://home.i.am/ .

If you can host a page on a commercial ISP that has a URI that is acceptable to you, you can always put up an index page with a "meta-refresh" tag that loads your server's URI (complete with the :8080). I think that's how http://home.i.am/ works, for the domain names they sell...

the_glassman · Aug 30, 2004, 04:55 PM

Originally posted by besson3c:
The best thing you can do is find an ISP where you can host a page that would automatically redirect to the correct URL with the correct port.

If your webpage means something to you though, you're best shelling out for some proper hosting. Most broadband ISPs provide really crappy upload speeds anyway.

I do it more for the unlimited bandwidth then anything else, with movie files that I like hosting for someone, if I paid for storage I would be quickly over my limit for the month unless I purchased a high end package.

C.J. Moof · Aug 30, 2004, 05:05 PM

No- he's saying get another top level domain on another server. Make the index.html file there something like

Code:
<HTML>
<body onload="window.location='http://yousite.com:8080'">
</body>
</HTML>

Whamo- that onload will redirect you to yousite.com. Bandwidth use will be limited to what's between the html tags above.

C.J. Moof · Aug 30, 2004, 08:55 PM

Or better yet, direct a no-ip.com account to your roadrunner account, and put the top level domain on a cheap host, and have the onload direct to your no-ip account:8080

Millennium · Aug 31, 2004, 06:35 AM

I'm afraid you're out of luck with your "real" URL. The URI standard defines that if you don't specify a port for HTTP, it goes to Port 80, and there is no browser which allows this to be changed.

Your best bet, as others have noted, is to go with something like no-ip.com, even though your IP address doesn't actually change. Be warned, however, that some companies block no-ip.com addresses, so it may be a good idea to keep the old address on hand as well.

tomw · Aug 31, 2004, 11:55 PM

You could try someone like www.zoneedit.com - they give you free web address forwarding for up to 5 domains.