Question

I have a few Apache virtual hosts set up. I’d like to access them from the outside. I found an article, Port-based Apache virtual hosts, that explained that you can tell each to listen on a specific port:

Listen 10080
<VirtualHost *:80 *:10080>
    DocumentRoot "/Users/.../public_html"
    ServerName www.foo.com
    <Directory "/Users/.../public_html">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Each would need a Listen <unique port> and I’d have to forward each port on my router. So the result would be:

• http://<my ip address>:10080
• http://<my ip address>:10081
• http://<my ip address>:10082
• etc…

Is there a better solution?

Answer 1

You are looking for “name based virtual hosts”.