Running a Web Server and FirstSpot on the same Server

Evin · Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 8 Location: Sherwood, OR

Is there a reason that FirstSpot and a WebServer (IIS) cannot run simultaneously on the same server? We we would rather not purchase another server just for FirstSpot to run on.
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kevin · **Forum facilitator** Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 442

Hello Evin,

You can do so, as long as IIS doesn't listen at ports that FirstSpot's built-in Apache is using: 80, 443, 5786, 5787, 5788, 5789. To be exact, you can do a netstat -a in Windows to verify the current HTTP listening ports.

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Evin · Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 8 Location: Sherwood, OR

I don't know if this is a hardware problem or if it is Firstspot...After we started FirstSpot, we tried to re-activate IIS Admin Service and then start our website through IIS Admin itself. We were able to initialize the IIS Admin Service through Windows Server Edition 2000, but once we actually opened up the console for the site, when we went to start it, we received the error "This IP address already in use." Does FirstSpot have anything to do with this?
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kevin · **Forum facilitator** Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 442

is it because IIS tried to use some ports that Apache was already using? Have you tried configuring different ports for IIS and restarting afterwards?

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Evin · Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 8 Location: Sherwood, OR

Kevin,

I understand what you are saying about FirstSpot and the ports that it listens on. However, there is no way to run FirstSpot and a Web Server at the same time and dedicate all of the external web traffic to the server itself, is there? If I isolate the web server to just one port, then every time someone tries to get to our site, they have to enter the port number that we telll IIS to listen on. I would rather not have this be a problem with our site. Is there a way to turn port 80 off on FirstSpot?
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kevin · **Forum facilitator** Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 442

If port 80 is turned off in FirstSpot, the login page and redirection won't work anymore.

One workaround that I can think of (but haven't tested): try to bind another (new) ip address to the *public* NIC of FirstSpot. Then, have your IIS to listen on that new IP's port 80. I guess your end-users can then access your IIS by using the new IP address.

Please make sure the new ip is listed *after* the pulic IP used by FirstSpot; otherwise FirstSpot won't work.
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