Simple question of making VNC accessible in web browser

[S. I. Becker]

If VNC Enterprise edition can support serving both the java applet and 
vnc server on the same port then you can do this.  I don't know all the 
features of that edition, though.

HTH,

Stewart

Astan Chee wrote:
> Sorry to bring this up again but two things, firstly thank you very much 
> for the information, it worked fine.
> Secondly, I havent tested this yet but instead of forwarding port 5900 
> to my pc, change the VNC (and the java) port 80 and only forward port 80 
> from my router. Will this work? or cause conflict since both the java 
> http port and the vnc port is 80.
> Also no, im using VNC enterprise edition also security is not really an 
> issue.
> Thanks again for your help.
> Cheers
> 
> S. I. Becker wrote:
>> To remove the need for ":xxxx" at the end, you need to have the java 
>> viewer being served on the standard http port, which is port 80.
>>
>> There are two basic ways of doing this
>>
>> Either:
>>
>> 1) Forward port 80 on your router to port 5800 on your computer,
>>
>> Or (e.g. if your router does not support changing the port, or you 
>> want to omit :5800 while _inside_ your LAN).
>>
>> 2) Forward port 80 on your router to port 80 on your computer, and 
>> change the VNC java port to 80.
>>
>> Port forwarding is needed because your ip address to the outside 
>> world, is actually your IP address of your router.  It then needs to 
>> know what to do with connections on each port - whether to ignore them 
>> (probably the default).
>>
>> In either case, you will also need to forward port 5900 on your router 
>> to your PC.
>>
>> NOTE: IF YOU ARE USING REALVNC FREE EDITION, THE ABOVE IS NOT SECURE. 
>> IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO TUNNEL VNC THROUGH SOME OTHER SECURE 
>> CHANNEL, SUCH AS SSH OR VPN.  (The Personal and Enterprise editions 
>> are more secure, or take a look at VeNCrypt - 
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vencrypt/ ).
>>
>> You don't need Apache - Apache is for actual web-sites servers, not 
>> other services that also use the http protocol.  Indeed if you have 
>> Apache on your system and try to change the java port to 80, one or 
>> other will fail, because you can only have one thing listening to port 
>> 80.  If you do have Apache (or any other web-server), you can 
>> configure it to work in harmony with VNC, by setting up a page in it 
>> just like the one VNC serves, but from your e-mail I'm assuming that 
>> you don't have Apache, and so don't need to do this.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Stewart
>>
>> Astan Chee wrote:
>>> I dont understand how port forwarding (due to my lack of knowledge in 
>>> it) can solve it.
>>> Even if i forward port 5900 and 5800 in my router does that mean i 
>>> can access the vnc server simply by typing http://<ip address> 
>>> instead of http://<ip address>:5800 ?
>>> Sorry but im not all that familiar with port forwarding and had 
>>> several accidents with it in the past.
>>> Thanks for you for your help!
>>> Cheers
>>> Israel A. Martmnez Ibarra wrote:
>>>> you don't need apache; the only thing to do is to forwar the port 
>>>> 5900 and
>>>> 5800 in your router/modem to see your vnc server from the WAN side.
>>>> for more help to do forwarding go to http://www.portforward.com
>>>> cheers.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Astan Chee" <stanc "at" al.com.au>
>>>> To: <vnc-list "at" realvnc.com>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:47 PM
>>>> Subject: Simple question of making VNC accessible in web browser
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I have a winXP machnine running with a VNC server on it.
>>>>> What Im trying to do is access said machine from the outside  world 
>>>>> via
>>>>> a web browser. I can do it fine if I type http://<ip address>:5800 in
>>>>> the URL where <ip address> is the ip of my computer.
>>>>> Now what Im trying to do is get access when I dont have access to port
>>>>> 5800. This means that when I type http://<ip address> in the URL the
>>>>> same should happen. I searched and read in a few places saying that I
>>>>> needed apache installed on my machine and that I needed to change
>>>>> settings in both VNC and apache. What Im asking is how do I do 
>>>>> this? Are
>>>>> there any tutorials that shows how I can do this?
>>>>> Similar to IBM's BladeCenter management module (the remote control
>>>>> section) for those who have used/seen it before.
>>>>> Thanks
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