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I'm using XAMPP on a VPS of mine, where I try to host 2 different websites at the moment. I plan on being able to host more. Currently; if I go to the VPS IP and one of the defined ports (in this case the two different ports I use are 8001 and 8002) a different site displays. Port 8001 reads from one directory and port 8002 from another.

Now comes the tricky part. I want a domain of mine - let's say www.foo.com - direct to the IP with port 8001 for example. How can I do this? I was thinking it was via DNS but I read something that DNS has no perception of ports.

UPDATE: As per usual I always plan things to be much more complicated than they are. Correct vHost-settings = no need for ports etc ;)

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  • FYI, cross-posting is frowned upon. I flagged your question to be closed at Stack Overflow.
    – John Conde ♦
    Apr 21, 2017 at 12:38
  • @JohnConde Roger, deleted the post over there since it was pretty useless
    – Jonathan
    Apr 21, 2017 at 12:39
  • Possibly an aside, but... Is there a specific reason why you are using these/different ports?
    – MrWhite
    Apr 21, 2017 at 13:52
  • @w3dk I just chose these ports since they're not used by my system, from what I've heard they'll work fine for apache if configured as such
    – Jonathan
    Apr 22, 2017 at 9:38
  • After some more research, I'm wondering if it's possible to create sort of a new IP that masks my original ip and port?
    – Jonathan
    Apr 22, 2017 at 21:37

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You are trying to over complicate things. XAMPP includes Apache (which has vHost support). You do this much the same as any other vHost setup. You create a new vHost configuration setting the hostname to the right domain name and the document root to the appropriate file path on the file system. By doing this you are only using a single port (port 80, the default http port) but you can run as many websites as your server can handle based on simultaneous connections.

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  • Yeah, I updated the OP a couple hours prior to your post regarding the whole over-complicating thing! It's pretty typical of me, reading just a bit of information and then trying to figure the rest out by myself for some reason haha. Thanks anyway, got some info now that's prolly useful
    – Jonathan
    Apr 23, 2017 at 11:16

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