[Red5] red5 on a shared server with IIS behind a firewall

[Walter Tak]

> Hi - I have been searching the archives carefully but haven't found a
> complete solution for my issue:
>
> I have red5 installed on a Windows2003 server running IIS. We are
> behind a firewall that blocks everything but port 80 and 443, no
> exceptions.
>
> If i try to set the ports in red5.properties for rtmpt or rtmp to 80
> or 443, I get errors because IIS is already listening on those ports.
> The IIS server is heavily used - I can't make big modifications to
> its functioning, although I can do things like add virtual
> directories and such.
>
> Right now there is no option to get an additional server for red5. Is
> there any solution to this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ellen Meiselman

* Add another real-world IP to your firewall (might be impossible if you 
have a normal non-business connection (dsl, cable) since the ISP's don't 
like to assign more IP's)
* Add another LAN-ip on your IIS server (eg you have now 10.0.0.100 , add 
10.0.0.101 on the LAN-nic)
* Let IIS listen on the current LAN-ip (it often listens by default on 
0.0.0.0 = all nics)
* Let Red5 listen on port 80 on the new LAN-ip (eg 10.0.0.101)
* Let the firewall route port 80 for it's second IP to the new lan-ip on 
your server

Virtual directories or virtual hosts or vhosts are only available within a 
daemon/server/service itself
so if it (the daemon) listens on port XXX then it can do virtual hosting but 
it cannot
share the same port with another application or server like Red5.

Red5 does a form of virtual hosts too ; you can host more than 1 application 
on the same IP/hostname but each
application is a unique application and operates indepedantly of the other 
apps.

But the easiest way is ; let them open port 1935 in the firewall and let it 
point to your IIS-box, prolly a political issue.

Regards,
Walter


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