Port 80 open, is that dangerous

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1

I have port 80 forwarded so I can see the live feed out of LAN, since ssh ports are not open is that dangerous? Also how can I disable the dot of my location on the web map?

2

If you are running PiAware ver 3, forwarding to port 80 on the Pi is not a big exposure. If you are running the older PiAware which has an internal web server on port 8080, I would recommend not exposing that to the outside world. It is not a very robust webserver. Simply requesting an invalid URL will crash it, when it should return “404 not found”. Ver 3 runs a real webserver called lighttpd, which works well for this simple sort of application.

3

I would suggest you don’t open port 80 to the internet - too many people just checking if port 80 (and a few other regulars) exist.

Pick a more obscure one instead e.g. 812

in your /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.config file add the following below the the line - server.port = 80

$SERVER"socket"] == “:812” {
server.document-root = “/var/www/html”
}

server will now respond to port 80 and 812