FTP Help

mssmith — Fri, 24 May 2013 22:28:07 GMT

We have Alfresco installed on a Mountain Lion server. We also have a Windows 2008 server with an HP OCR software. We want to scan documents on a scanner using this OCR software and send it to Alfresco through its' FTP service. Problem is that you cannot specify a port using the OCR software for FTP.

Re: FTP Help

simon_white — Fri, 31 May 2013 08:29:18 GMT

Quick disclaimer: My actual production experience on this in in other *nixes rather than OSX, but a quick google indicates this should all apply.

The reason Alfresco uses port 2121 is that only the root user is allowed to open ports 1-1024 and we almost never want to run Alfresco as the root user.

The usual trick, therefore, is to configure your server to redirect/translate traffic that would otherwise hit port 21 to hit port 2121. On Linux you'd do something like (See <a href='http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Configuration'>the wiki</a>):

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp –dport 21-j REDIRECT –to-ports 2121 ‍

On OSX, <a href='http://serverfault.com/questions/183542/how-to-permanently-redirect-port-80-to-8080-on-os-x'>this serverfault post</a> gives instructions for forwarding - just change port 80 to 21 and 8080 to 2121 and you should be good to go!

Hope this helps,

Simon

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