Re: Web site behind firewall

"pixelmeow" <NJZLIRWUWYGI@spammotel.com> wrote in message
news:45e1bec399d5edbbc99f7f71732aa0f3@TeraNews...
> Hi, all;
>
> I got Apache and Tomcat working together with many thanks to John
> Turner and his how to site that I posted here yesterday
> (http://www.johnturner.com/howto/winxp-howto.html). Now that it's
> running (and not using localhost, using the machine's domain name,
> even!) and going fine, I need to know if anyone here knows how to make
> the site available from behind a firewall.
>
> See, this is the test machine, and whatever I get working will go into
> production once I get it going properly. Both machines are behind the
> company firewall, on the LAN, and I can get to them via VPN or while
> at work in the office. What I want is for the users to be able to
> type the URL and get to the jsp/servlets that I want to be able to
> search the database for the users, from outside the firewall. Is this
> possible with the server behind the firewall, at all? I don't know if
> it's a matter of opening a port, configuring a file, or what...
>
> And if it's a manual I need to read, or a link to one, I don't mind
> RTFM, either. :-)
>
> (apache 2.0.44, tomcat 4.1.18, j2sdk1.4.1_01 on win2k service pack 2)
>
> --
> Teresa Redmond
> Programmer/Analyst II
> Anteon Corporation
> tredmond *at anteon dot# com

The tunneling or port redirection from firewall:80 to yourwebserver:80 which
lives in LAN - should help.
Or if you use Apache on your firewall server may be ProxyPass will help you
to transfer files.
Though i have unresolved problem with proxying - big files hung firewall
which runs the Apache. - be careful! You better ask it from webhosting
people.