[thelist] change apache port on linux

[Hassan Schroeder]

Joel D Canfield wrote:
> I want to be able to connect to the web server on my linux box from
> outside my network. My router sends all port 80 traffic to my Windows
> web server. I'd like to have it send another port to the linux box's IP.
> 
> The apache docs seem to say that the default port for apache is 8080 

No, default is the standard port 80

> but trying to connect to the machine across my network thus
>
>   http://orkney:8080
> 
> results in an error, even if I explicitly add 'Listen 8080' to
> httpd.conf.

Uh, a bit of missing info here --

What version of Apache, what error? Can you see that the httpd
process actually started up?

Have you run `apache -t` and `apache -S` to check your httpd.conf?

And, not knowing what Linux distro you're running, I'd still guess
you need to explicitly allow access to port 8080 through iptables.

A little scattershot, but HTH! :-)

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