Another thought might be to purchase a domain from an ISP and enough room
for one web page. Make this page a referral page to your port 81 web site
(automatic after a short amount of time). The domain you purchase will have
a port 80, so you will look like a "normal" web site. The additional cost is
around $10.00 per month (just a guess - anybody know??)

Any reason this won't work?

Mark Phillips



> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Rick
> Rosinski
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 9:52 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Hooking up my box to the web
>
>
> Thanks for all of the info everybody!  Simple enough to do,
> but I don't like
> having that tacky :81 at the end of my domain name.  I looked
> back in the
> archives, and DSL seems to be the answer (so far).
> If I were to go the DSL route, how much would it cost to
> purchase all of the
> hardware necessary so I wouldn't have to rent it.  Also, what
> are they
> charging now for the line and the internet service?
>
> Thanks for your input, which is more reliable than sales &
> tech support.
>
> On Wednesday 05 December 2001 06:17 am, you wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:48:35AM -0700, Rick Rosinski wrote:
> > > Are there any docs on changing the port to 81?  Others
> say it is a pain.
> > > WHy?  What are the consequences of changing the port?
> >
> > Yep. Read the docs at http://www.apache.org. It's not so
> much of a pain,
> > really, just that people can't go to
> http://www.yourhost.com and see the
> > page -- they have to go to http://www.yourhost.com:81. The
> consequences are
> > that, since you're not using a standard port now, web
> browsers won't be
> > able to communicate with the webserver software. As such,
> to even view the
> > page, you have to specify the port in the URL (eg:
> > http://www.yourhost.com:81).
> >
> > All it takes (in Apache) is a change of the directive in
> httpd.conf that
> > reads as "Port 80" to read "Port 81".
>
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