Port 80 Blocked, is There Another Route?

[Obrien28]

My internet provider, Optimum Online, blocks my port 80... what are my options as far as an account creation website?

Can I have another staff member host it?

Can I host it off of freewebs? Or another free hosting website?

What are my options?

I wasnt sure what else to do so I attempted to use a Freewebs website, and put an HTML from an account creation page on there, would that work?

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/world-...tion-page.html for example.

[stoneharry]

Yes and no.

You need to create a new user to connect to your SQL database, but make sure that the IP allowed to connect (host) is set to the website and NOT % (means all). Then it will work if you have port 3306 open.

You can host websites on other ports if you want to host it though.

[Obrien28]

Like which? That would work I assume.

[project anthrax]

actually ^ (not trying to be a smart ass) you can use port redirect on port :81 or :8080 simply what you need to do if foward one of those ports download wampp server open the application then left click it in the taskbar go to apache then another menu will open go to httpd.conf open it press ctrl+f search for all instances of :80 change them to either 81 or 8080

to make it easy look for this first
and change it as so being the 8080 is what you use or 81

#
# Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or
# ports, instead of the default. See also the <VirtualHost>
# directive.
#
# Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to 
# prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses.
#
#Listen 12.34.56.78:8080
Listen 8080

then go here put your dns name!! here only

#
# ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to identify itself.
# This can often be determined automatically, but we recommend you specify
# it explicitly to prevent problems during startup.
#
# If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here.
#
ServerName >>>>>> dont include these arrows halloweentown.dyndns.org <<<<<<<< no spaces between dns and this:8080

*not included*

it should look something like this 

ServerName halloweentown.dyndns.org:8080

then start services/install
put online
and reset

type in your http://dns.dns.com:8080 or :81 in some cases you may not have to type the ports

and to your hosting problem use a simple free hosting service on the web and make a wrapper on your site for the acct creation pg.

[Obrien28]

This was super helpful! +rep x2. Thank you so much, was just what I was looking for.