Question

I am using Open Suse. I am new to it and web servers (and StackOverFlow too).

There is a apache2 in the etc directory and xyz.xyz.xyz returns “It works!”.
Also xyz.xyz.xyz:5000 currently returns a webpage. I have modified the page and want to host it.

Problem:
How do I configure the apache server to create a port for me?
What files do I need to modify (httpd.conf?)? And will I need super user access?
Thanks

Answer 1

OpenSUSE may have a different layout for configuration files, but what you are looking for is a VirtualHost directive which is setup to read port 5000. (Apache docs on VirtualHosts)

This may be inside httpd.conf, or it may be in another file inside /etc/apache2 which ends also in .conf. You will find the port 5000 setup looking something like:

<VirtualHost *:5000>
  DocumentRoot /path/to/index/dir
  ... Other stuff...
</VirtualHost>

To create a VirtualHost which listens on a different port than 5000, just copy the entire <VirtualHost>...</VirtualHost> block and change both the port number, and the DocumentRoot to point to the place on your filesystem which will hold your other vhost’s files. You will also need a Listen *:port_number directive to cause Apache to take over the port.

For example, to add a vhost on 5001, do:

# Instructs apache to use this port
Listen *:5001

# Instructs apache to route requests on this port to a specific directory
<VirtualHost *:5001>
  DocumentRoot /path/to/index/dir
  ... Other stuff...
</VirtualHost>

You will need to restart Apache after this.

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Note that you will need superuser access to do modify the httpd.conf file, and to restart Apache.