I, have a problem with port 80 being blocked, but my problem is of a
much wider range than most. My internet connection is through my
school (university) and it seems that almost every port is blocked to
incoming traffic. Running web servers is not mentioned in the internet
ToS, so I assume they don't consider it an issue. I used a port
scanning tool at
www.grc.com and it found that out of the ports
between 0 and 1055, only two were open. The ports that were open were
22 (SSH) and 111 (SUN RPC Portmapper). I was wondering if it was safe
at all to use either of these ports? I don't know about the 111, but I
don't believe that SSH is used much by windows and there aren't many
(if any) Linux/Unix/mac boxes on the network. I wasn't able to test
the full range of ports beyond 1055, but from some random tests I
found that others in the 33000 range were also closed. I have
configured my router to forward ports 80 and 443 to the IP of my
server box, but the blocking is coming from the routers and whatnot
farther into the system, which I do not have access to. I haven't set
up any dynamic IP DNs linking or anything for my domain, as right now
I am just concerned with making the server accessible from outside my
local LAN. This is using Apache server 2.2.4 on a Windows XP Pro SP2
box. Any on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!