How to make my website run on a non-standard port?

[kevk3v]

Sorry if this is the wrong section guys please move it to the correct place if this is not the correct place to ask.

I am trying to make a website run on a non-standard port.

Example by default mysite.com should have a port number of 80, so it runs on http://mysite.com:80 how do i make it run on any other port number such as 8080, 9055, 8090 or what ever non standard port i want?

I have seen this on many websites before so it is possible.

Please reply asap.

[zq29]

You need to configure your VirtualHost to listen on a different port.

[kevk3v]

Can you tell me how to do this on a host like byethost32.com, 000webhost.com or if i cant do it like that, the correct way? thanks...

[Mchl]

First of all you should ask your host if they even allow for such changes. It might be, that they block all ports except 80 and 443 on their firewall.

[Daniel0]

Can you tell me how to do this on a host like byethost32.com, 000webhost.com or if i cant do it like that, the correct way? thanks...

 

You'll need a dedicated server or a VPS. No shared host is going configure their web servers to listen on multiple ports for individual customers.

[phil88]

Out of curiosity, why do you want it to listen on a different port?

[The Little Guy]

All you have to do is change the apache configuration file.

 

From this:

Listen 80

 

To this:

Listen xxxx

(replace xxxx with your port)

 

Next you need to restart apache, and then you can go to your site: http://mysite.com:xxxx

[gizmola]

In the apache config there is going to be a

 

NameVirtualHost *:80

 

or similar statement.  The vhost section then references this:

 

servername foo.bar
...

 

Typically there's one or 2 NameVirtualHost statements and a whole slew of vhosts that will be using that same ip/port combination.

 

So if you wanted to have a Vhost on another port, you'd need a NameVirtualHost statement like:

 

NameVirtualHost *:8080

 

This could also be used to bind to a particular IP/Port

 

NameVirtualHost 10.1.1.10:8080

 

Regardless, you use the appropriate vhost directive, for example with the (all ips on machine, listen on port 8080:

 

servername host