port for web publishing

[hiro]

Hello,

I have a FileMaker running Mac. My LAN has firewall and IP addresses is 10.??.??.??. Now I want to access this Mac from outsaide of LAN. My ISP is asking which port (I'm planning to assign 591) should be open? Is it UDP or TCP?

Please help me.

[hiro]

Hello,

I have a FileMaker running on Mac. My LAN has firewall and IP addresses is 10.??.??.??. Now I want to access a data on this Mac from outsaide of LAN. My ISP is asking which port (I'm planning to assign 591) should be open? Is it UDP or TCP?

I get a public IP address poited this Mac.

Please help me.

[DykstrL]

It's actually both UDP and TCP

[Lee J]

Why should your ISP worry about the Port?

We just setup a IP route from ur router to the PC running our FMPro via a virtual socket and let the router do the mapping once it's internal

[Anatoli]

You should use port 80.

Only if on the same IP is already web server on port 80, then you should use the 591.

I do not think, there is UDP involved. It is the most normal web server traffic.

[hiro]

Thank you everybody,

Opened both UDP and TCP (591). It working OK.

Thanks again!!

[Simon]

I have found port 591 to be real pain. Many large companies do not have port 591 opened for access on their firewalls as it is not standard. Many companies could not access my website when this port was used. I changed to port 8080 whoch is a bit more standard and all my clients managed to access the web site straight away. I would steer clear from using port 591 if you expect a lot of companies to access your site through corporate firewalls

Simon Pennington

[Anatoli]

quote:

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Originally posted by sp:

I have found port 591 to be real pain. Many large companies do not have port 591 opened for access on their firewalls as it is not standard. Many companies could not access my website when this port was used. I changed to port 8080 whoch is a bit more standard and all my clients managed to access the web site straight away. I would steer clear from using port 591 if you expect a lot of companies to access your site through corporate firewalls

Simon Pennington

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You are right about corporates.

Is the 8080 more open at their Firewalls, and if yes, why?

[Simon]

port 8080 is open as it is the industry standard port for a second web server running on the same machine as another web server

Simon

[Anatoli]

Thank you!