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mmseng · 01-14-2010, 03:58 PM

Ok so here's my deal:

I have a Kindle, and I'd like to try to use it to access the Calibre Content Server. Apparently the Kindle web browser cannot access nonstandard ports. So I need to either run the content server on port 80 or forward my external port 80 to calibre's port 8080 (or whatever). That's not a problem. I could do that if I wanted to.

Here's the problem. I already run a webserver on my external port 80, and thus cannot forward it to Calibre. So my options are looking like:
- Get a second external IP address/router (yeah right)
- Stop my webserver just to run Calibre's content server (no thanks)
- Get the Kindle to access non-80 ports (not likely)
- Get Calibre's content server to somehow work together with my existing webserver on port 80.

Here's what I'm thinking, but I'm not entirely sure if/how this can be done. It seems like through some combination of redirection and/or virtual hosts I could get the kindle to be redirected from mydomain.com:80/calibre/ straight to the calibre CS, hopefully without the kindle needing to realize it's shifted ports (because calibre will still be running on a non-standard port on a separate machine from the webserver, unless someone has come up with a fix for that).

If anyone has any more detailed info on how I could do this, or can think on any other options I'm not thinking of, pray tell.

01-14-2010, 03:58 PM	#1
mmseng Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Kindle	Integrating Content Server with existing webserver? Ok so here's my deal: I have a Kindle, and I'd like to try to use it to access the Calibre Content Server. Apparently the Kindle web browser cannot access nonstandard ports. So I need to either run the content server on port 80 or forward my external port 80 to calibre's port 8080 (or whatever). That's not a problem. I could do that if I wanted to. Here's the problem. I already run a webserver on my external port 80, and thus cannot forward it to Calibre. So my options are looking like: - Get a second external IP address/router (yeah right) - Stop my webserver just to run Calibre's content server (no thanks) - Get the Kindle to access non-80 ports (not likely) - Get Calibre's content server to somehow work together with my existing webserver on port 80. Here's what I'm thinking, but I'm not entirely sure if/how this can be done. It seems like through some combination of redirection and/or virtual hosts I could get the kindle to be redirected from mydomain.com:80/calibre/ straight to the calibre CS, hopefully without the kindle needing to realize it's shifted ports (because calibre will still be running on a non-standard port on a separate machine from the webserver, unless someone has come up with a fix for that). If anyone has any more detailed info on how I could do this, or can think on any other options I'm not thinking of, pray tell.