My ISP blocks port 80. So my URL needs to be www.domain.com:8000 (Using port 8000). Is it possible to somehow strip the ":8000" from the domain, but still use port 8000?

I tried phoning my ISP but they offered no help.

When someone types in a url without a port designation, it automatically tries to connect to that domain on port 80. If you are hosting the domain yourself and your ISP blocks port 80, you have a few options:

1. Start hosting your website somewhere else
2. Convince your ISP that you're a valuable paying customer and you want to run a website, so please unblock port 80. Some ISPs make you pay for a business account to run business services like web/email servers.
3. Get a small hosting account somewhere, set up the domain there, and have a redirect setup so that anyone goes to the site gets sent to www.alternatedomain.com:8000 whenever they go to www.domain.com.

If you don't specify a port in your browser, it automatically assumes you're talking about port 80, so it tries to connect through it.

As far as I can recall, there really isn't any way around it.

I know that No-IP.com has a port redirect feature. You might want to check into it.
I've never used it so I don't know if it's a free service or paid.

http://www.no-ip.com/support/guides/...k_port_80.html

Originally Posted by jamieh

My ISP blocks port 80. So my URL needs to be www.domain.com:8000 (Using port 8000). Is it possible to somehow strip the ":8000" from the domain, but still use port 8000?

I tried phoning my ISP but they offered no help.

Depending on where you registered your domain, this should be workable for free. If you have DNS management with frame url redirects (enom based resellers, godaddy, etc.), just setup a framed url redirect pointing to yourdomain.com:8000. You can even hard code the hyperlinks in your site this way (yourdomain.com/page.html -->yourdomain.com:8000/page.html) to better hide this from your end users.