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Jason

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Alternative port?
« on: June 07, 2009, 09:36:43 PM »
Wow... pulpTunes rocks!

I have great success in coffee shops and other types of open networks, however, behind my corporate firewall, the port 15000 is blocked.  Has anyone had any experience putting it at a more common port?  Like the web port and such?  Should I expect problems or security concerns?
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Re: Alternative port?
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2009, 10:08:41 PM »
Thanks :)

Under Mac (and Unix and Linux) if you wanna run pulpTunes under port 1024, you need to start the app as root, which is not recommended for pulpTunes nor any other service. When you change the port in pulpTunes settings, you'll get a warning about this.

You have two other options:

1) Easiest and best: most routers will let you map an external port (say web port) to an internal IP and port (say pulpTunes' 15000)
2) Have some software in the machine you have pulpTunes installed to forward the port you want to pulpTunes'. Here are some instructions on how to do this with Apache:
http://pulptunes.wiki.sourceforge.net/mod_proxy

Cheers
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