Extend webserver support

Adding support for remote repos running on custom ports

Optional By default, pulp is allowed to connect to web servers running on several standard or semi-standard ports: 80, 81, 443, 488, 8008, 8009, 8443, 9000.

If any of the remote repos you are trying to connect to are hosted on non-standard HTTP/HTTPS ports, you can configure Pulp to be able to talk to them like in the following example for port 10011.

sudo semanage port -a -t http_port_t -p tcp 10011

Adding support for proxy servers running on custom ports

Optional By default, pulp is allowed to connect to web proxy servers on several standard or semi-standard ports: 3128, 3401, 4827, 8080, 8118, 8123, 10001-10010.

If Pulp is configured to use a proxy server (in order to talk to remote repos), but the proxy server is on a non-standard port, you can configure Pulp to be able to talk to them like in the following example for port 10012.

sudo semanage port -a -t http_cache_port_t -p tcp 10012

Note

If you get the following error:

ValueError: Port tcp/10012 already defined

That means that the port number is already labelled for some other purpose by SELinux. No change was made to your system. Run this command instead (substitute http_port_t for remote repos):

sudo semanage port -m -t http_cache_port_t -p tcp 10012

Note

Technically Pulp can talk to any remote repo or proxy server running on any SELinux-recognized ports for web servers or for proxy servers. (They are effectively one cumulative list.)

Note

To see the complete list of these ports currently recognized on your system, run: sudo semanage port -l | grep -E "^http_port_t|^http_cache_port_t|^squid_port_t" | grep tcp