Getting an activation code behind a firewall

Aurea List Manager can be activated even though there is a firewall in place.

Activating Aurea List Manager behind a firewall

1. Both Port 80 and port 25 needs to be open in your firewall configuration. Port 25 must be open so that Aurea List Manager can send and receive emails. Your activation code is received after opening these ports. For more information, see TCP and UDP connections.
2. In case a proxy server is being used, you need to edit the script getactivation.tcl located in the lm/tcl/scripts directory, to use the proxy.
3. Open the file getactivation.tcl with a plain text editor such as Notepad or Emacs.
4. Edit this line of the script to contain your proxy information. Be sure to remove the # sign.

# If you have a proxy server,
you can specify it here # and remove the '#' symbol to use it.
#http::config -proxyhost yourproxyhostname -proxyport yourproxyportnumber.

5. You have to remove the # sign in the third line above, and replace yourproxyhostname with your proxy hostname, and yourproxyportnumber with your proxy port number. Find an example below:

http::config -proxyhost host.example.com -proxyport 1111.

Troubleshooting activation code problems

In case you are still unable to get an activation code, you need to edit the script getactivation.tcl located in the lm/tcl/scripts directory, to use the proxy.

To do so:

1. Open the file getactivation.tcl with a plain text editor such as Notepad or Emacs.
2. Edit the file so that it contains the following after the set url line: puts $ur.
3. Open a command prompt and cd into the Aurea List Manager directory.
4. Run the following command: lm getactivation. The URL(s) that Aurea List Manager is attempting to use to get the activation code is shown. You may enter this URL directly into a web browser.
5. There are some circumstances where you may want to clear the activation code. For example, when you are installing Aurea List Manager on another computer. For this, you have to use the following command:

lm clearactivation

6. When you are behind a firewall, and you need to edit the proxy information for the getactivation.tcl script, you may need to do the same for the clearactivation.tcl file as well. The recommended way is to copy the proxy information from the getactivation.tcl script to the clearactivation.tcl script exactly.