Server Related Issues

[rockstarrem]

Hello all,

I'm having a few problems with running my server on Ubuntu Desktop. Here are my issues:

1. I need to make the default port for SSH different than port 22 as my host blocks it.
2. I need to make the Apache port different than 80 because my host blocks it.

I have tried different methods of achieving this but I would like a straight up answer on how to do all of this. I would like to access my computer outside of my home network with a program like PuTTY, but so far I can only successfully connect to my computer on my network. I am running Ubuntu Desktop 8.04.

Please, I'd really appreciate some straight-forward help with this, it would be much appreciated.

[azurepancake]

To change the default port for Apache, you simply need to edit the /etc/apache2/ports.conf file..

sudo nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf

..and change the "Listen 80" line to whatever port you want to use. Then restart the Apache server by typing..

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

..into a terminal.

For SSH, edit the "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" file..

sudo nano /etc/ssh/ssh_config

..and change "Port 22" to what ever port you want to use. Restart SSH with..

sudo etc/init.d/sshd restart

I hope this helps!

[rockstarrem]

Hello,

Thanks for the reply. The file for Apache doesn't exist. I will test the SSH now though .

[azurepancake]

Hello,

Thanks for the reply. The file for Apache doesn't exist. I will test the SSH now though .

My apologies! The correct path is actually..

/etc/apache2/ports.conf

..and to restart Apache it is..

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

[rockstarrem]

Hmm, I changed the ports to 8080 and asked someone to connect and still nothing. I restarted the server and everything. It works locally though. I have ports 443 and 8080 forwarded and all, any suggestions?

[azurepancake]

You've might of done this already, but just to make sure - when the person tried to connect, did they specify the port when they typed the address?

Like..

http://www.website.com:8080

or

http://71.43.112.22:8080

If the person trying to connect remotely is getting a "403 error" or some kind of error message regarding permissions, you might need to correct the permissions of your server root.

[rockstarrem]

Yeah, I did that, good thinking though. I don't really know what else to do.

[azurepancake]

Yeah, I did that, good thinking though. I don't really know what else to do.

I remember when I setup my Apache server quite a bit ago, (port 80 was also being blocked for me as well) I was having permission errors when trying to access it remotely, until I changed the permissions of the server root. The only thing I can think of is giving your server root 777 permissions to test it out.

I am not sure how secure this, but you might want to give it a shot just to see..

sudo chmod 777 /where/you/keep/your/website

Thats all I can think of for now, if anything else comes up I'll update. Hopefully someone will come along with the answer you are looking for!

[rockstarrem]

I don't know if this will help but here's what I'm getting when I restart:

dom@dom-desktop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
* Restarting web server apache2 [Mon Jun 16 15:37:30 2008] [warn] module php5_module is already loaded, skipping
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
[Mon Jun 16 15:37:41 2008] [warn] module php5_module is already loaded, skipping
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
[ OK ]

[azurepancake]

It seems there is perhaps a misconfiguration with the FQDN or "Fully Qualified Domain Name".

I did a quick search for any information on this error and came across a site where several people who were having the same problem, fixed it. This is what they did..

You edit the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file and at the end of the file, add:

# added servername to avoid the could not determine fqdn error
servername myserver

(the "servername" part might already be in your file waiting to be edited. If its commented, uncomment it)

Place your server name in place of "myserver". So in your case, it should be something like..

www.mywebpage.com:8080

As for the PHP already loaded error, it seems this occurs when there are multiple "LoadModule" directives for 'php5_module' in your httpd.conf file. Removing one of them should fix that particular error.

Let me know how it works.