[Mapserver-users] Atlas Amsterdam, first week running

[Jan Hartmann]

Delfos, Jacob wrote:

> Hi Jan,
> 
> I can't seem to open the site at all. It seems to try to use port 8040. 
> Is that me, or are you actually running your webserver on that port?
> 
> Many offices (such as mine), have become very cautious lately, and block 
> all ports except the necessary ones. This may be why other people have 
> had difficulties as well.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jacob
> 

Jacob,

That **IS** the case. I am very sorry not to have mentioned that too. 
You are not the only one: another organisation that has blocked every 
non-standard port is the municipality of Amsterdam! The opened it up for 
this case for port 8040, but that is not to be expected for other 
organisations.

I had no idea that so many sites restricted access. I based my analysis 
on the web log from the actual Atlas server, which gets its requests 
redirected from another server at SARA computing center. Requests that 
get rejected because of port restrictions never reach my server.

The reason we organised it like this in the computing center was that 
for this experimental webserver I needed full access to my web server's 
  configuration files, but did not need or want root access to the whole 
cluster. You need that to start a web server on port 80. I would 
appreciate if people with restricted access (i.e. who don't even see the 
opening page with the two angels) would drop me a mail with the name of 
their organisation. It will help me to set things up here for general 
access.

Thanks,

Jan



dr. J. Hartmann
Department of Geography
University of Amsterdam
j.l.h.hartmann at uva.nl