Assign Different port number for 1 website alone on Linux Server with multisite on single IP

Question

I have Linux VPS. Configuration Linux CentOS with cPanel Default port :80

Servers running Apache for PHP (default in cPanel) Tomcat 5.5.33

I have a only 1 IP alloted for it. Have multiple domains hosted on it.

MY PROBLEM: All domains are running on port :80 but i need only 1 of my domain to run in port :8080

I'm able to access my domain as www.example.com:8080 but i need to access it as www.example.com (8080 should deliver instead of default 80)

My references http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/examples.html http://library.linode.com/lamp-guides/centos-6

Answer 1

If I understand correctly, you want to transparently access the tomcat content on www.example.com:8080 by simply accessing www.example.com - there's a few methods to do this:

1) if you have mod-rewrite enabled, try something like this in your vhost definition or in a .htaccess file

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond  %{SERVER_PORT} !^8080$
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://%{SERVER_NAME}:8080%{REQUEST_URI} 

2) if you wanna back-proxy it (needs mod_proxy_http enabled) http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc-archive/jk2/proxy.html

Answer 2

You get two categories of options: redirection or reverse proxy (which you can do within a specific VirtualHost configuration, if you need this to be for only one host name).

The redirection can be done using mod_rewrite (as @O G says).

Since the server running on port 8080 is effectively a different server from Apache HTTPD on port 80, mod_rewrite can't rewrite URLs internally (so it only works in redirection mode). Instead, you can use a reverse proxy method:

• mod_jk2 (from @O G's link) is considered "historical".
• mod_jk is rather stable, but it relies on the AJP protocol, so you wouldn't need to enable it on your Tomcat configuration (probably not on port 8080).
• mod_proxy_ajp is also rather stable and often comes by default with Apache HTTPD (unlike mod_jk), at least with version 2.2. It also uses the AJP protocol, so you would need to configure Apache Tomcat accordingly too.
• Otherwise, you could use an HTTP reverse proxy, with mod_proxy_http (without the need for AJP).

Answer 3

I had found solution from the hints given in previous posts

.htaccess file

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^admin(.*)$ http://example.com/tryAdmin$1 [R,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/try/$1 [R,L]

/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/2/tryord/example.com/extra.conf

ProxyPass         /try  http://example.com:8080/try
ProxyPassReverse  /try  http://example.com:8080/try
ProxyPass         /tryAdmin  http://example.com:8080/tryAdmin
ProxyPassReverse  /tryAdmin  http://example.com:8080/tryAdmin

References http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/proxy-howto.html#Apache_2.0_Proxy_Support

Apache - /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf Tomcat - /usr/local/jakarta/apache-tomcat-5.5.33/conf/server.xml

Include

/usr/local/apache/modules/mod_proxy.so