alias port / port forwarding to another local port

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I am using Amazon Linux AMI in EC2.

Previously they allow me to enter different external port from internal port in the AWS web console (in the security groups). Now they only allow the same port for both internal and external port.

I need to have the same daemon to be visible from both port 80 and 8000. The daemon is now running on port 80.

How do I "port-forward" port 8000 to 80 in the same instance?

I am using the free usage tier (micro instance with Amazon Linux AMI)

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 02 '14 at 11:47

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iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 8000 -j REDIRECT --to-port 80

Something like this. :)

edited Jul 02 '14 at 11:47

Andrey Kuznetsov

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answered Mar 24 '11 at 09:42

MealstroM

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iptables v1.4.7: unknown option `--dport' Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. – Afriza N. Arief Mar 25 '11 at 14:37
@afriza I updated the answer. You need to specify protocol using `-p` option – Andrey Kuznetsov Jul 02 '14 at 10:53

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 26 '11 at 00:26

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sudo iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 8000 -j DNAT --to-destination 127.0.0.1:80

the above command succeeds but both /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/forwarding and /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward contains 0 and are not writable even after using sudo.

answered Mar 26 '11 at 00:26

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check /etc/sysctl.conf. There you should add something like this net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 for ../net/ipv4/ip_forward this should help – MealstroM Mar 28 '11 at 07:44

alias port / port forwarding to another local port

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