Pagekite: Binding to any port

[Amit Saha]

Hello all:

I have played around with Pagekite a little. I have an application
running on my localhost which exposes the port 9990 and I want this
port to be available publicly, i.e http://myname.pagekite.me:9990
should be accessible from the 'outside' world. The few attempts I have
made to do that with Pagekite tells me that its probably not allowed
to bind this port.

Is that right? If yes, what's the alternative?

Many thanks!
-Amit

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[Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson]

Hi Amit!

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Amit Saha <droi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> I have played around with Pagekite a little. I have an application
> running on my localhost which exposes the port 9990 and I want this
> port to be available publicly, i.e http://myname.pagekite.me:9990
> should be accessible from the 'outside' world. The few attempts I have
> made to do that with Pagekite tells me that its probably not allowed
> to bind this port.

The PageKite service is only listening on some ports, not all (you can
see a list when the program connects to its front-end). You will have
to use one of those. For example, you could connect
http://myname.pagekite.me:8080/ to your localhost:9990 with a
command-line like this:

$ pagekite 9990 http://myname.pagekite.me:8080/

Or to just add that to your default configuration:

$ pagekite --add 9990 http://myname.pagekite.me:8080/
$ pagekite
...

Is the exact number, 9990 important for some reason?

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Bjarni R. Einarsson
Founder, lead developer of PageKite.

Make localhost servers visible to the world: https://pagekite.net/

[Amit Saha]

Hi Bjarni:

On 01/15/2012 11:29 PM, Bjarni R�nar Einarsson wrote:
> Hi Amit!
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Amit Saha<droi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all:
>>
>> I have played around with Pagekite a little. I have an application
>> running on my localhost which exposes the port 9990 and I want this
>> port to be available publicly, i.e http://myname.pagekite.me:9990
>> should be accessible from the 'outside' world. The few attempts I have
>> made to do that with Pagekite tells me that its probably not allowed
>> to bind this port.
>
> The PageKite service is only listening on some ports, not all (you can
> see a list when the program connects to its front-end). You will have
> to use one of those. For example, you could connect
> http://myname.pagekite.me:8080/ to your localhost:9990 with a
> command-line like this:
>
> $ pagekite 9990 http://myname.pagekite.me:8080/
>
> Or to just add that to your default configuration:
>
> $ pagekite --add 9990 http://myname.pagekite.me:8080/
> $ pagekite
> ...
>
> Is the exact number, 9990 important for some reason?

Many thanks for your reply. Yes, I am trying to host my own App Inventor
service which can only connect to the port:9990 to use as its build
service. So..:)

Well, I think the alternative is to run my own frontend, right? Anything
else?

Thanks again.
-Amit

>

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http://echorand.me

[Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Amit Saha <droi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is the exact number, 9990 important for some reason?
>
> Many thanks for your reply. Yes, I am trying to host my own App Inventor
> service which can only connect to the port:9990 to use as its build service.
> So..:)
>
> Well, I think the alternative is to run my own frontend, right? Anything
> else?

At the moment, I am afraid so. I am considering whether I should
enhance PageKite to allow dynamic allocation of ports on the
front-end, but there hasn't been much demand for that so far and it
could complicate things quite a bit.

I am very surprised if the App Inventor port number is not at all
configurable, are you sure you cannot change it?

[Amit Saha]

On 01/16/2012 01:17 AM, Bjarni R�nar Einarsson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Amit Saha<droi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is the exact number, 9990 important for some reason?
>>
>> Many thanks for your reply. Yes, I am trying to host my own App Inventor
>> service which can only connect to the port:9990 to use as its build service.
>> So..:)
>>
>> Well, I think the alternative is to run my own frontend, right? Anything
>> else?
>
> At the moment, I am afraid so. I am considering whether I should
> enhance PageKite to allow dynamic allocation of ports on the
> front-end, but there hasn't been much demand for that so far and it
> could complicate things quite a bit.

Hmm..It would be good to have it, but its already so awesome. Can't ask
for more!

>
> I am very surprised if the App Inventor port number is not at all
> configurable, are you sure you cannot change it?

Well, yeah right now, I am speculating that since they are just shipping
JARs (as they are in a transition state) they have kept it that way. It
was just a personal project to get it up and running. But, I shall post
a query on that list and see if that can be changed now.

Thanks much.
-Amit
>

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