Running a webserver on IPv6 only?

Ympker

So I am trying to get a webserver running on a NAT VPS trying to use IPv6 only!

I assume what I would need to do is create an AAAA Record to the IPv6 adress in my DNS manager and somehow make the webserver listen to IPv6 (via LAMPs sites-available?!). Something like "listen [::]:80" perhaps? I guess I would also need to reroute requests to 80 to my NAT port range as my port range (obviously) does not include the standard web port.

I'm a bit at a loss here so would be great if someone can point me into the right direction :- )

Oflameo

What web server are you going to use?

Ympker

@Oflameo said:
What web server are you going to use?

LAMP stack

jeff9023

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Listen [Your IPv6 address]:80

Oflameo

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/bind.html

It is pretty much exactly the same, but IPv6 addresses must be enclosed in brackets.

Ympker

@jeff9023 said:
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Listen [Your IPv6 address]:80

What about the issue that I do not have port 80 available on my NAT vps by default?

oneilonline

Common things forgotten to config:
Is the IPv6 setup correctly in the vnic?
Is the firewall config correctly?

mikewazar

@Ympker said:

@jeff9023 said:
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Listen [Your IPv6 address]:80

What about the issue that I do not have port 80 available on my NAT vps by default?

On the shared IPv4 you won't have port 80, on the IPv6 you should have port 80...

Ympker

@mikewazar said:

@Ympker said:

@jeff9023 said:
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Listen [Your IPv6 address]:80

What about the issue that I do not have port 80 available on my NAT vps by default?

On the shared IPv4 you won't have port 80, on the IPv6 you should have port 80...

I will try this then :- )

jeff9023

@Ympker said:

@jeff9023 said:
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Listen [Your IPv6 address]:80

What about the issue that I do not have port 80 available on my NAT vps by default?

You can using the 80 port of your IPv6 address, directly. The NAT rules just be set for the IPv4 address.

Ympker

Thanks for the help everyone Much appreciated!

teamacc

Use cloudflare's 6-to-4 proxy to make your site accessible from ipv4-only connections after setting all this up.

nfn

if you only have IPv6 on port 80, you could try cloudflare to get both IPv4/IPv6 to your IPv6 port 80.

Ympker

@nfn said:
if you only have IPv6 on port 80, you could try cloudflare to get both IPv4/IPv6 to your IPv6 port 80.

Is it the "IPv6 Compatibility" option in CF I need to enable?

NVM got it to work :P Was enabled by default^^

nfn

@Ympker said:

@nfn said:
if you only have IPv6 on port 80, you could try cloudflare to get both IPv4/IPv6 to your IPv6 port 80.

Is it the "IPv6 Compatibility" option in CF I need to enable?

You should set your AAAA IPv6 record for this to work and you let IPv6 compatibility On.

Ympker

@nfn said:

@Ympker said:

@nfn said:
if you only have IPv6 on port 80, you could try cloudflare to get both IPv4/IPv6 to your IPv6 port 80.

Is it the "IPv6 Compatibility" option in CF I need to enable?

You should set your AAAA IPv6 record for this to work and you let IPv6 compatibility On.

Yep got it to work.. Thanks so much! This will be interesting for some of my projects to come :P

nfn

This is a good way to run a service over an IPv6 network only.

Ympker

@nfn said:
This is a good way to run a service over an IPv6 network only.

Yes indeed.