A confused Newbie with apache Problems.

Good day -
I am extremely new to apache, and have only dabbled with extreme care on the work Linux servers.
I have managed to install Redhat 7.2 and was able to get SSH working and apache installed.
However - I believe my ISP is blocking port 80
in my httpd.conf i have a listen port of 9080 and the default port still set to 80.

i have a domain that is pointing to my machine through my works Named.conf and doing a trace on the domain name resolves to the correct IP

BUT typing in the domain name does not resolve it - i get the 404 message

typing in the IP and i get 404
but typing in the IP:9080 i get the server root pages.

I have included the virtualhost directives and I can email the entire httpd.conf to somebody if the request it if they need more info.


<VirtualHost ********>
ServerAdmin andrew@**.***.***.***
DocumentRoot /home/main/html
ServerName **.***.***.***
TransferLog /home/main/logs/http.log
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost ********>
ServerAdmin andrew@**.***.***.***
DocumentRoot /home/andrew/websites/********/html
ServerName URL
TransferLog /home/andrew/logs/*********/http.log
</VirtualHost>

I have removed the IP and domain names to protect the server.

Please if somebody can help me with this problem I will be eternally thankful.

Thank you

Andrew R

what about
name.com:9080 does that work

why not change 9080 to 80

Because of the fact that my ISP is blocking port 80
that is what I am trying to get around

if you have configured Apache to run on port 9080, then you are going to have to type that in the address location. www.yourserver.com:9080

Browsers always use port 80 for http addresses unless told otherwise. So you will have to type it in.

Seems to me your configuration is fine. Am i missing something?

If you used the defauly config of your RH and Apache and cant see nothing at www.yourdomain.com (and www.yourdomain.com:80 [same thing]) but somehow CAN see www.yourdomain.com:8080 or www.yourdomain.com:9080, it most certainly a communication block.
There are 2 options in that case:
1) You block that communication.
2) Your ISP does.

if 1: check your RH firewall config with "setup". See that you dont block (=do allow) httpd and eve do - just set port 80 to be safe - just to make sure.
if 2: Maybe you are working with an ADSL ISP - many of those are very fearful of people running web-server from home and shutting down port 80. Talk to your ISP and see. Cant to much in that case.

There may be another option I forgot - but you can start with this.

Okay i can see URL
but what I am trying to do have have the server telling the world that my site is located at :9080 so that they dont have to type in URL

is that possible that you know of?


Thank you
Andrew