Accessing cPanel/WebMail behind a strict firewall

[Adam]

We had an e-mail from a client last week who was having problems accessing his control panel from work (who wants to work when you can play around with Fantastico?) because the firewall blocked ports 2082 (cPanel) and 2095 (WebMail).

We played around with PHP and .htaccess and successfully ported cPanel and WebMail over to port 80. Because it was such a success we have decided to offer this functionality on all servers; click the corresponding links below to test it out.

Phoebe
cPanel: http://cpanel.hu-servers.com
WebMail: http://webmail.hu-servers.com

Titan
cPanel: http://cpanel.hu-hosting.com
WebMail: http://webmail.hu-hosting.com

Hyperion
cPanel: http://cpanel.hu-hyperion.com
WebMail: http://webmail.hu-hyperion.com

Atlas
cPanel: http://cpanel.hu-atlas.com
WebMail: http://webmail.hu-atlas.com

Mimas
cPanel: http://cpanel.hu-mimas.com
WebMail: http://webmail.hu-mimas.com

Pan
cPanel: http://cpanel.hu-pan.com
WebMail: http://webmail.hu-pan.com

Tethys
cPanel: http://cpanel.hu-tethys.com
WebMail: http://webmail.hu-tethys.com

Miranda
cPanel: http://cpanel.hu-miranda.com
WebMail: http://webmail.hu-miranda.com

Access is slightly slower than the traditional login with ports 2082 and 2095 as the server has to grab the information and relay it back to your browser twice but all in all it works extremely well.

Enjoy

Kevin

[despammed]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I asked for this ages ago too.

It'll cache better too being on port 80 so that slow speed will be leveled out with less hits.

[despammed]

In fact thanks to squid it's much faster than before!

Cheers Kevin.

[Adam]

Are you pleased about this by any chance?

Glad it's working for you.

Kevin

[despammed]

Are you pleased about this by any chance?

Glad it's working for you.

Kevin

Yep. Cheers.

So whow did you do it? Some sort of php port redirection script and a mod_rewrite rule?

[despammed]

FYI: There appears to be a bug when downloading a full backup. (don't shoot the messenger)

[Adam]

Some sort of php port redirection script and a mod_rewrite rule?

Bang on.

What errors are you getting from the backup process?

Kevin

[despammed]

There is a url with http://localhost/ in it which obviously ain't gonna work.

[dhj]

Oh Yes ! Absolutely outstanding. I can now shut down my other (accessible) email accounts.

[despammed]

Kevin,
Any cance you could post/e-mail me a copy of the rewrite config and redirector?

Chris.

[Adam]

Yup

In .htaccess you'll need this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/proxy.php
RewriteRule .* /proxy.php [last] 

The PHP file is attached.

Kevin

[recurring]

I think I'm doing something wrong. I'm behind a firewall too. I've tried my control panel access username and password on all three links and none of them work (Access Denied as opposed to a timeout).

If I wanted to give my webmail users a nice and easy webmail URL that will work from behind firewalls (as some of them are), what would I give them, one of the three webmail links in the first post? Are there alternatives that are more related to my domain that will work?

[Robert]

Complete guess here. Are you on telesto?

Telesto
cPanel: http://cpanel.hu-telesto.com
WebMail: http://webmail.hu-telesto.com

[recurring]

Indeed I am, the CP link above work great, thanks. The webmail only goes to HP's front page though.

Now it's just my webmail question - is there some way I could have my clients use webmail via a standard port but using my domain URL?

[pete_the_sweep]

Indeed I am, the CP link above work great, thanks. The webmail only goes to HP's front page though.

Now it's just my webmail question - is there some way I could have my clients use webmail via a standard port but using my domain URL?

Yes, you would have to do what Kevin did a few posts above

Peter