problems with port other than 80

[dotline]

Hi

Installed xampp on Windows 10 64bit. Local development working fine on port 80. If I change it to anything like 8080 for remote access, the local website cannot be accessed. Only apachefriends and phpmyadmin pages are visible.

Let me know please what information do I need to share.

[Altrea]

All information is missing.

Are the components successfully restarted?
How do you try to access the website? What do you type in your browsers address bar?
What response do you get? blank page? error messages?

[dotline]

Thanks for asking.

Changed httpd.conf: Listen 80 to "Listen 192.168.10.169:8080", and Servername to "Servername 192.168.10.169:8080"
All components restarted successflly.

On the server machine, (the PC where I installed xampp), if I type localhost:8080 the apachefriends page is displayed. I can access phpmyadmin from that page. But when I try to access my website, it gives me error," localhost refused to connect". I have tried localhost:8080/mywebsite but with the same result.

192.168.10.169:8080 opens the apachefriends page. The address looks like 192.168.10.169:8080/dashboard/. If I reuse the address as 192.168.10.169:8080/mywebsite/ it goes in to loading mode. The spinner spins but nothing happens.
(Not sure if worth mentioning, while the spinner is spinning, the status message at the bottom says "waiting for www.facebook.com". It has happened before and after reinstalling xampp.)
Following is the entry from access.log:
192.168.10.169 - - [12/Oct/2022:22:17:42 +0500] "GET /mywebsite/ HTTP/1.1" 200 119545 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

Since I started typing this message, the spinner is still in action. About 10 minutes now.

Please let me know if I need to send more info.

[Nobbie]

But when I try to access my website, it gives me error," localhost refused to connect". I have tried localhost:8080/mywebsite but with the same result.

You probably installed a software like WordPress, Joomla or whatever. And when you installed it, you installed it to Port 80. The installation procedure of these tools create configuration files and/or configuration entries in databases, where the URL of the installation is stored. And MOSTLY, all of these tools do a redirect to index.php or similar everytime you call it. And this redirect now fails. Because there is no more server at Port 80.

You have to find out the configuration and to change. Or, if you dont find it, reinstall your software again with Port 8080.

"waiting for http://www.facebook.com".

Thats another hint, maybe you have blocked all outgoing request on Port 80 in your firewall or similar?

Why did you change Port 80 to 8080?

[dotline]

"You have to find out the configuration and to change. Or, if you dont find it, reinstall your software again with Port 8080."
Sure. I will look into it.

"Why did you change Port 80 to 8080?"
I want to access my website from other machine on LAN. And also from outside (internet).

[Altrea]

What makes you think port 8080 is better for this than port 80?

[dotline]

Internet!

[Altrea]

That's totally wrong.

[Froosh]

I totally agree with Altrea. There is a lot of information on the internet, and an awful lot of that information is either incorrect, or simply some person's opinion. Nothing you take from the internet should be naively believed or anything else without you having done some research. Anyone can, and a lot do, post complete non-sense. The only advantage I can think of for using an alternate port would be if you already had a web server, say IIS, or application that uses port 80.

[dotline]

Many thanks Altrea and Froosh.

Now I need real guidance. I did a clean install of WP. Still cannot access it from LAN. Ultimately I would like to access from internet.

Thanks for your help.

[Nobbie]

1) Where did you install WordPress? (Folder?)
2) What do you enter in LAN client PCs in order to reach WordPress?
3) What happens, which messages do you get?
4) What did you do in order to reach WordPress from internet?

[dotline]

Hello Nobbie,

Thanks for helping me:
1) Where did you install WordPress? (Folder?)
D:\xampp\htdocs\mywebsite

2) What do you enter in LAN client PCs in order to reach WordPress?
192.168.10.169 - This takes me to Apache Friends page and url shows as: http://192.168.10.169/dashboard/

3) What happens, which messages do you get?
When I edit the url and change it as: http://192.168.10.169/mywebsite/, I get:
i) localhost refused to connect ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
ii) The url changes to localhost/mywebsite/

4) What did you do in order to reach WordPress from internet?
enabled live IP
When I type just the IP address, I get Apache Friends page from my system. I can click on all menu items and get response, except phpmyadmin. Which gives me 403.
If I type live IP/mywebsite/, I get the same error: localhost refused to connect ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED and the url changes to: localhost/mywebsite/

Regards

[Altrea]

You need to configure Wordpress properly. Wordpress does have settings for site url for example. If the site url is set to localhost because you installed wordpress from localhost, all urls are getting generated wrong and lead to an dead end.

=> https://wordpress.org/support/article/changing-the-site-url/

[Nobbie]

As it is a new WordPress Installation anyway, i think its easier to install it again once more, instead of modifying the configuration settings. When installing WordPress and you are asked for the ServerName or HostName, dont overtake "localhost", instead enter the LAN IP 192.168.10.169. Or, as you want to run via live IP, enter this IP instead of localhost or the LAN IP. This should work even if you are working at the Xampp PC.

Finally start your WordPress via Live-IP/mywebsite (on all clients, even if you are on the Xampp PC). Last not least, if you have live IP enabled, you already can start the WordPress installation from Live-IP/mywebsite instead from localhost. You wont need to override any "localhost" ServerName, as then the Live-IP will be the Default Value, exactly what you need. Thats the easiest and best way to install WordPress for live IP access.

Xampps Phpmyadmin runs only on localhost, that is wanted for your safety. If it would run from live IP, the whole world could modify your data, definately not something you will like.

[dotline]

Hi,

Done all of above. Still getting ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED