which port do we use?

[Trygve]

Hi,

a consultant is setting up a firewall on our servers, and he asked me which
ports coldfusion uses. The server is a standard installation of coldfusion 7 on
a windows 2003 server, and uses

- web services
- cfhttp
- standard web pages (cfm and html)

Which ports should be kept open for this to work correctly?

[MichaelSJudd]

Well, he probably already knows the ports for the services you just mentioned.
(Port 80 for http:, etc.)

You may also want to consider port 25 (if you will user the cfmail function,
for outgoing smtp mail).

One other note - if you are having problems running the ColdFusion
Administrator, you could add port 8000 PLUS go into the IIS Manager, right
click on the website you will be running ColdFusion on, and click on
"Properties".

Choose the "Website" tab and click "Advanced".

Under "Multiple Identies for This Website", have your consultant click "Add",
the add the IP Address (or All UnAssigned), Port 80, and "Host Header Value" of
127.0.0.1.

I hope this helps!

[Trygve]

That helps a lot. Thank you! :smile;