alfresco through a firewall.

[tman247]

I'm looking to setup an Internet facing Alfresco 4.2c CE server. It will be behind a corporate firewall, so I need to know what are the minimum ports that need to be enabled to allow Alfresco to function. I'll be using SSL by default (so 8443 is a must). Nobody will be mapping drives to it. All authentication is local to the server, but documents will need to be uploaded/downloaded. I'm just a bit concerned that a whole raft of ports are opened on the server by the java process, but are all necessary? If I need to do any admin on the server, I'll do this from the local console.

As I said, it would be good to know what minimum ports are required.

[mitpatoliya]

I think this will give you whole idea
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Port_numbers

[tman247]

Thanks. I had seen that document, but while it tells you *all* the port numbers, it doesn't actually tell you what's actually required, or what the minimum you need for a working solution. Anyway, I've so far just enabled 8443, and this seems to do pretty much everything I've tested so far (which, granted, isn't that much), but I can fully browse the sight, and upload docs.

[mitpatoliya]

Yes that should be enough if you are just accessing it though the browser.
As said previously it completely depends on the what are the services you want to use.
Lets say you want to use alfresco as inbound mail server as well  you need to open up the port associated with that so its up to your requirement.

[tman247]

Thx. We're just using it as a web based collaboration tool, so I'm guessing 8443 is all that's needed for us (so far at least). Invites will all be contained within the system, so no SMTP going out from the host.