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Hi all,

Just wanted to put a tip out there. My work (a hospital) has a pretty strict firewall and doesn't allow access to many ports aside from your standard 80. Since I already had an apache webserver running when I installed subsonic on my Ubuntu server, I ended up running it on some arbitrary high-8000 port. This made it so I couldn't access subsonic from work, very sad! I ended up setting up a VirtualHost for subsonic in my apache config and did a reverse proxy so it bounces back through 80 and then is accessible! In case anyone else had the same problem!

Zeke

That is interesting, zeke. Can you post more details on how to setup a reverse proxy? I'm sure many people would appreciate the advice!

Much luck,
ytechie

Another very good working method, is by using Apache.

First, set up Apache, and install mod_proxy. Enough tutorials on how to do this, not going to explain here.
When all of this is well, create a new site with the following config, replacing stuff to suit your environment:

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<virtualhost *:80>
   Servername <your_external_hostname>
   ProxyPreserveHost On
   ProxyRequests Off
   ProxyPass / http://<internal_ip_of_subsonic>:4040/
   ProxyPassReverse / http://<internal_ip_of_subsonic>:4040/
</virtualhost>


Of course, if you've changed the default port of subsonic, replace that as well. When this is enabled, Subsonic will be available through port 80, on the hostname you entered.

tricksel wrote:Another very good working method, is by using Apache.

First, set up Apache, and install mod_proxy. Enough tutorials on how to do this, not going to explain here.
When all of this is well, create a new site with the following config, replacing stuff to suit your environment:

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<virtualhost *:80>
   Servername <your_external_hostname>
   ProxyPreserveHost On
   ProxyRequests Off
   ProxyPass / http://<internal_ip_of_subsonic>:4040/
   ProxyPassReverse / http://<internal_ip_of_subsonic>:4040/
</virtualhost>


Of course, if you've changed the default port of subsonic, replace that as well. When this is enabled, Subsonic will be available through port 80, on the hostname you entered.

Hehe... I guess you beat me to it... or at least if it didn't come across clearly, what I was trying to say is exactly what you posted! Or at least that's what I'm doing!

Z