How to install ProTop when port 80 is blocked

If port 80 is blocked on the machine you want to install and run TroTop, but port 443 is open, read on ...

The most salient parts are in BOLD:

1. Create your protop installation directory (we'll use /usr/protop for this example on Linux).

2. cd /usr/protop

3. download the protop archive and move it to /usr/protop

4. uncompress it; you'll see the pt3inst* file.

5. set these environment variables:

export PORTALPORT=443
export PORTALOPTIONS='-ssl -nohostverify'

6. create and pt3inst.pf and place this line in it:

-certstorepath /usr/protop/certs

7. run the installer:  ./pt3inst

8. Follow the rest of the normal installation instructions.