[Koha] Routing with a FQDN

[Doug Dearden]

Hi Dave,

It sounds to me like you are trying to do this through a single public IP address.  We do this by paying for a range of IP addresses, then use a mapped IP function in our firewall to map incoming requests from an external address to an internal address.  It is similar to the virtual host idea, but not sharing an IP address and therefore the port can be 80.

I think you will have better luck figuring this out by going to Cyberoam support.

Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Contact Orielstar
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 8:48 AM
To: Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: [Koha] Routing with a FQDN

Hi Folks,

Are there any networking guru's out there than can help us with routing, 
please? We have Koha installed in a school running a cyberoam (which is 
basically a big router). We have a domain (.peterhouse.co.zw), and we 
would like users on the WAN (Internet) to be able to access Koha from 
home by using *koha.peterhouse.co.zw*, and not have to add a colon and a 
port number. So how can we set this up so that instead of just mapping 
the koha bit to an ip address, we map it to the ip address:81?

We have tried setting up a virtual host on the cyberoam, but it's not 
working as it says port 80 (external) is already mapped. Well, all 
requests from the internet are going to come on port 80, so the mail 
server is mapped to this as well. So we've missed something very 
fundamental.... if they type mail.peterhouse.co.zw then the request 
should go to 10.10.10.5. If they type koha.peterhouse.co.zw then the 
request should go to 10.10.10.6*:81*. I can't see any way on our 
cyberoam to map an address to an ip/port, just to an ip only.

Any ideas you have would be most welcome. Even if you haven't got a 
cyberoam, how have you all done external routing on your installations?

Thanks for your help, and regards,
-- 

Dave Jury

	

rielstar
Business Solutions

	

Marondera Branch:
10A Tipperary
Marondera
Phone 0773 247 121

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