Web port : 8080 vs 80

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Created February 06, 2017 17:52

Possibly a very naive Q but a little push to get me on my way. I have created a vhost for my local site on port 8080. I created a PHP Web App server and marked it as port 8080 and then used that server in the web app profile. When I click debug it get "site not found" @ http://mysite.com:8080/index.php?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=17062. If I revert both the apache2 VHOST entry AND the web app server to port 80 it works. I have run netstat and nothing appears to be using port 8080. So what gives?

Thanks and apologies if this is a facepalm moment.

2 comments

Andriy Bazanov

Created February 06, 2017 23:25

Hi there,

Not enough info (need your config)

But so far it could be:

You have not restarted Apache after making those changes (well .. not necessarily a full restart but at least re-reading the config files is needed)
You may also have not enabled listening on that 8080 port (e.g. "Listen 8080") -- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mpm_common.html#listen

Richard Riley

Created February 07, 2017 08:13

That was all I needed. It was the Listen directive. That and I was getting a little mixed up between local PHP Web Server and Apache 2 config. It works now and interestingly (although NO idea why) now I have moved it to port 8080 a local copy of someones Symphony project now works whereas it didn't on port 80 on this same machine.

Thank you for your polite and prompt response once again!

regards

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