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Re:Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools? by Vendan on Sunday August 27, 2017 @11:11AM (#15111093)
Windows rdp is 3389, but really, anything can go on any port up to 65535. The common ports like 80 and 443 are just there as "it's common to use these for services, so you don't have to put in http://google.com:80". And there's no real "enabling" them, it's just a question of if your firewall allows it, and if you have something actually listening.

Also, websocket is just a protocol upgrade slapped on http/https, so it normally goes over 80/443. If someone's running it on another port, it's probably cause the server they have on their normal http/https doesn't work well with websockets.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools? by ge96 on Sunday August 27, 2017 @05:19PM (#15112818)
Yeah the 3000 I just recalled that with a tutorial on socket.io I did a couple years back.

Yeah my bad in the RDP, you know I messed up on that. Was trying to get around firewall rules, I edited the registry and changed the port for it... Could not get back in. This was one of Amazon's windows servers, and I mounted it as a volume to another one and could not access the registry to change it back so yeah... Locked myself out haha.

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