Running on non-standard ports

[chrivers]

@hugo-vrijswijk writes:

@chrivers I'm using different ports for Bifrost as 80 and 443 are in use already on my machine. But the Hue app is unable to find any bridge when setting up the app. Is there a way around this? I'm not sure how to continue

[chrivers]

@hugo-vrijswijk Unfortunately, the answer is no, and there's nothing I can do about it :(

As far as I know, the hue app exclusively supports port 80/443.

The port binding options in bifrost, are for rare cases where people want to forward those ports to 80/443 on another ip address.

One hypothetical option (which would take a bit of trial and error) is to move whatever you currently have on 80/443 to other ports, and then use something like nginx as a reverse proxy.

Then nginx would bind to 80/443, and would be able to dispatch to multiple backends (where bifrost is one of them), based on the incoming request.

To be honest, that's really not easy to do. I'm not even 100% sure it works.

Is there any way you could add a secondary IP to your device instead? If that's an option, you could bind each service to their own IP, and things should work.