Setting up apache behind a router

[Derek Broughton]

Marco Segreto wrote:

> I have Ubuntu 8.10 server set up on my network which is connect to the
> internet through a linksys router. I wanted to be able to access
> websites on my server but need to go through a port besides 80 because
> the router blocks this port. I've enabled port forewarding on port 8080
> on my router and have set up a static IP for my linux machine. When I
> try and connect to my server with myserver.net:8080 it still times out.
> I'm pretty sure I set up everything correctly though.  Here's my
> ports.conf file in the apache2 folder:
> 
>     NameVirtualHost *:80
>     Listen 80
>     Listen 8080

OK, you really can't expect that to work.  You probably shouldn't touch 
ports.conf - add your listen 8080 before the virtualhost definition in 
sites-enabled/000-default, as well as:
  NameVirtualHost *
The current definition tells Apache that VirtualHosts only work on port 80, 
and then you're wondering why they don't work on 8080.
> 
> I tried switching to VirtualHost *:8080 as well as changing it in the
> default file in the sites-available folder but it didn't work either.
> I've done this before on my Hardy system and I had no NameVirtualHost
> option so I'm not really sure why it's there now.

You _did_ have a NameVirtualHost *:80 in ports.conf by default, but not one 
for 8080.
-- 
derek