port forwarding for admin interface

[geekmonkey]

Hello,

I thought I give zimbra another try and installation worked pretty smooth on Ubuntu 8.04.
The problem I have is that I am behind a nasty firewall that has pretty much all ports closed except for a few standard ones.
I want to access the admin interface through one of the standard ports and redirect it with iptables on the zimbra server to port 7071.

This is what I added to iptables:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 8080 -j REDIRECT --to-port 7071

when I access https://www.example.com:8080 then the server replies, but redirects the request to https://www.example.com/zimbra/?zinitmode=http

How do I setup iptables properly to get this working?
Thanks for any help
Michael

[irfan]

You might want to set zimbraAdminPort and zimbra_admin_service_port to your custom port.

su - zimbra
zmprov ms `zmhostname` zimbraAdminPort 8080
zmlocalconfig -e zimbra_admin_service_port=8080
zmcontrol stop
zmcontrol start

Also remove the iptables rule, it is not needed. Server admin port should listen on 8080

[geekmonkey]

Thanks for your reply.
That would certainly be the perfect solution, if only it would work.
Zimbra continues to listen on 7071.

Originally Posted by irfan

You might want to set zimbraAdminPort and zimbra_admin_service_port to your custom port.

su - zimbra
zmprov ms `zmhostname` zimbraAdminPort 8080
zmlocalconfig -e zimbra_admin_service_port=8080
zmcontrol stop
zmcontrol start

Also remove the iptables rule, it is not needed. Server admin port should listen on 8080