topic Re: Changing port 80 to 6080 for apache under linux in Operating System - Linux

Changing port 80 to 6080 for apache under linux

Henry Chua — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:49:28 GMT

I try to change the my apache default port from 80 to 6080 but does not seem to work. What i did was:
1. change the "Listen 80" to "Listen 6080",
2. restart by "/etc/init.d/httpd restart", but it show [FAILED]. is there any thing i need to change?

Best regards
Henry

Re: Changing port 80 to 6080 for apache under linux

Maxim Yakimenko — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:56:42 GMT

My be other app holds socket open on port 6080 preventing apache?

Re: Changing port 80 to 6080 for apache under linux

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:17:09 GMT

Check /var/log/httpd/error_log for messages that can idicate what is the cause of the problem.

Re: Changing port 80 to 6080 for apache under linux

Henry Chua — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:21:30 GMT

hrmm.. nothing on the error log, just cannot restart :p

Re: Changing port 80 to 6080 for apache under linux

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:58:01 GMT

It supposed to work...
what is the output from:
netstat -an|grep 6080

By the way it supposed to show "FAILED" for the stopping phase - I assume that the httpd service was down already.Does it show "FAILED" also for the starting phase?

Re: Changing port 80 to 6080 for apache under linux

Henry Chua — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:05:52 GMT

hi, i can start with port 80 but after changed the port to 6080 it failed.. Anyway do i need to change the port setting on /etc/services?

Thanks.

Re: Changing port 80 to 6080 for apache under linux

Henry Chua — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:06:53 GMT

output of "netstat -an|grep 6080 => nothing"

Re: Changing port 80 to 6080 for apache under linux

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:12:16 GMT

It works in my case without changing the line in /etc/services. (tried on RHEL 4.3)

Hm, do you use selinux? If so - try to disable it. (Edit /etc/selinux/config and make sure there's a line SELINUX=disabled).

Re: Changing port 80 to 6080 for apache under linux

Henry Chua — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:28:36 GMT

after i disabled it, do i need to restart anything?? =)

Re: Changing port 80 to 6080 for apache under linux

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:32:23 GMT

There's a command:
setenforce 0
that turns off the enforcing mode.
Anyway, it's best to reboot to make sure that everything works after reboot.

Re: Changing port 80 to 6080 for apache under linux

Henry Chua — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:51:16 GMT

it works now.. but is there any repercussion for disabling SELINUX?.. or should i configure it to accept traffic from this port.

Re: Changing port 80 to 6080 for apache under linux

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:57:38 GMT

Follow the link:
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfm#I2

There's a way to make everything (or almost evrything ) work with selinux. There are lots of guides on the internet and it's something that you'll spend some time learning - if of course you'd like to use it on your machines...

Re: Changing port 80 to 6080 for apache under linux

Henry Chua — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:59:11 GMT

Cool.. thanks Alex! =)