: Assign subdomains to separate ports on web server I have set up an Abyss web server as a little experiment, and I want to know if it is possible to assign subdomains to different ports on

@Phylliss660

You need to make a separate VirtualHost for each port, like so:
#assuming you have this in your config
NameVirtualHost *:8000
NameVirtualHost *:8001
NameVirtualHost *:8002
NameVirtualHost *:8003 # (...)
Listen 8000
Listen 8001
Listen 8002
Listen 8003 # (...)


Then each VirtualHost looks like this:

<VirtualHost *:8000>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot /path/to/www/dir/1
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:8001>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot /path/to/www/dir/2
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:8002>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot /path/to/www/dir/3
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:8003>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot /path/to/www/dir/4
</VirtualHost>


And for each of the /path/to/www/dir/(1,2,3,4...) directories, you can use PHP for example, to redirect the user:

<?php
header('Location: example.com/webui2'); ?>


Or instead use mod_rewrite to do that within the Apache configuration.

But this setup is incredibly inefficient, a hassle to maintain, and not worth probably what you're intending to do.

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