I need help with my client/server window(winsock) application.

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There is this client/server appication that I developed. I wish to host a website for it as well as host the sever version on the same hosting location in order to save money.

My only concern is whether the server version of my application will conflict with the web server that will service browsers that request for web pages of my website from the same hosting location. I mean is it possible for my application to intercept connection meant for the web server and is it possible for the web sever to intercept connection request meant for my server application.

In short is it possible for the two server application to coexist on the same computer? If that is the case , is there any condition that must be satisfied for this to be?.

Posted 22-Sep-12 5:24am

Gbenbam

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Mohibur Rashid 22-Sep-12 12:15pm

here is an idea, might be crazy, run your installed webserver on some other port, run your application on port 80, and your application will read all the request from both of your server. when the request would be for your already running server just create the same request, that came from client, to the running server and also forward all the reply from the server to client.

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Mehdi Gholam · Answer 1 · 2012-09-22T05:52:00

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Yes if the communication mechanism and data storage are different i.e. you use different TCP port numbers and the database connection strings are different.

Posted 22-Sep-12 5:52am

Mehdi Gholam

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Gbenbam 22-Sep-12 15:02pm

Do you consider port 49222 appropriate for my purpose?

Christiaan Rakowski · Answer 2 · 2012-09-22T05:59:00

In short, yes, for example you can run IIS and SQLServer on the same machine.
The long answers requires some more details.

Websites run on port 80, so IIS uses that already. Your application will need to use an unused port, somewhere high above 20k is always good, but there is a list on wikipedia with registered ports: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers[^]
If you pick an unused port, and set the firewall correctly you can host as many applications on the same machine as you like, provided you have enough RAM and whatnot.

If you want to have both run port 80, then you can use IIS to make a webapplication, with a certain subdomain, and redirect that to an ASP.NET application (but that is probably not what you would want to do, if it is, let me know and I could explain more on that)

Hope this helped you on your way :-)