Website Hosting on different port.

[Khoomn]

So I currently have a VPS which i run some things on and one of them is a python program that hosts a website with flask. it takes up the default port of 80. I want to host my main website I have with apache2 on a different port since they both cant be running the same port. I remember trying to change the port on apache2 and it never worked and I dont remember why. Is there a way to host a website on apache with a different port such as 8080 or something like that so when you goto mysite.com it will automatically load the 8080 port instead? I know there is ports.conf in the settings but like i said, i forget why it didnt work.

[PorkishPig]

You're looking for Apache Virtual Hosts. You can read the Virtual Host documentation here, with an excellent setup guide available from DigitalOcean here.

[Eigenvektor]

Your browser will always connect to port 80 for HTTP and port 443 for HTTPS, since those are the well known ports for these protocols. This is not something you can override on the server side.

 

If you want your browser to connect to a different port, you need to manually append that port to the url, e.g. "http://domain.com:8080". You could configure an automatic redirect on the server, but that will only happen once the client has made the initial connection to port 80. So you'd still need something to listen on port 80 and redirect accordingly.

 

The proper way to do this is to use subdomains and virtual host, so you can do something like http://domain.com and http://python.domain.com. Both of them will listen on port 80 on the same server, and Apache will take care of routing that to the correct application.

 

You could also consider using nginx, which you may find easier to configure:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-nginx-server-blocks-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-16-04

[mariushm]

You should set up a subdomain ex flask.yourdomain.com  or whatever, and run that python site using the subdomain

 

Add the subdomain in the dns settings of your domain, then maybe configure vhosts on apache or nginx.

 

Use your regular domain on port 80, the website that everyone will see.