Changing port 80 to 6080 for apache under linux

[Henry Chua]

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

[Maxim Yakimenko]

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

[Ivan Ferreira]

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

[Henry Chua]

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

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

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?

[Henry Chua]

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.

[Henry Chua]

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

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

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).

[Henry Chua]

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

[Alexander Chuzhoy · Accepted solution]

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.

[Henry Chua]

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

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

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...

[Henry Chua]

Cool.. thanks Alex! =)