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Reputation:

Port Forwarding for web hosting

I just got a raspberry pi for Christmas and I have just installed apache, php and all the required stuff to host my website. I want to use my raspberry pi as a web server for my website. I obviously need to port forward! Apache is running on port 80 how safe is it to forward port 80? I want to know if I port forward is my whole Wi-Fi now under threat from hackers ? If I am hacked, what can they compromise ? And finally I heard about changing the apache port to stop malicious bot port scanners, can I just change my port from 80 to anything or are there only certain ports ?

Thanks, Jamie

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3881

Answers (1)

zar3bski
zar3bski

Reputation: 3171

The thing is: if you want people's web browser to access your web app, it needs to be on standard ports (80 or 443 for HTTPS). You'll need to redirect connections to ports 80 and/or 443 on your raspberry pi ' local ip in the configuration of your router.

If you want to isolate your raspberry pi from the rest of your local network and that your router allow it, consider putting it in a dmz

Even if you were to redirect on a custom ports later to be listened to by Apache, it wouldn't change much in such a case. If you want to secure your server, there is several other options to consider (fail2ban, firewall rules, etc).

Last: from personal experience, raspberry pis make good web servers to experiment with. Have a lot of nerdy fun

Upvotes: 5

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