I am trying to open a port on the droplet, to add a second site which I want to access via ip:port (in my case port 8000). I have this config files:
main.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/VetPartnersPrintPortal/public
<Directory /var/www/html/VetPartnersPrintPortal/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.pl index.cgi index.html index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www/html/VetPartnersPrintPortal/public
<Directory /var/www/html/VetPartnersPrintPortal/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.pl index.cgi index.html index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
slider.conf
<VirtualHost *:8000>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/slider/
<Directory /var/www/html/slider/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.pl index.cgi index.html index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
ufw status give following:
Status: active
To Action From
-- ------ ----
22/tcp LIMIT Anywhere
443/tcp ALLOW Anywhere
80/tcp ALLOW Anywhere
22 ALLOW Anywhere
8000 ALLOW Anywhere
8000/tcp ALLOW Anywhere
22/tcp (v6) LIMIT Anywhere (v6)
443/tcp (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6)
80/tcp (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6)
22 (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6)
8000 (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6)
8000/tcp (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6)
What am I doing wrong here? The main site can be accessed, but slider is giving an error:
Unable to connect
Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at
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Hello,
I think that you would need to add port 8000 as a Listen port as well so that Apache listens on that port before you could use it in your Vhost.
To do that open this file:
/etc/apache2/ports.conf
And bellow the Listen 80 line add Listen 8000 and then restart Apache:
systemctl restart apache2
To check if Apache is listening on the port run:
netstat -plant | grep 8000
Then the Vhost setup that you have should work as expected.
Hope that this helps. Regards, Bobby
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