If i change my apache port 80 to another port, can this affect google listings?

Doomhammer · 03-16-2007, 12:44 AM

Hi,

I changed my default apache port 80 to 8089 lastweek, now when i google my company name, i am not listed. Is this caused by the fact that i changed my port to 8089?

Thanks

j-ray · 03-16-2007, 03:56 AM

probably - if there is no service listening on port 80

nx5000 · 03-16-2007, 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Doomhammer

Hi,

I changed my default apache port 80 to 8089 lastweek, now when i google my company name, i am not listed. Is this caused by the fact that i changed my port to 8089?

Thanks

How is google (or any other webclient) supposed to know which port to access your website?
Ports follow a convention
that both client and server are supposed to use. Webservers are then only defined by their ip adress (or apache vhost name in your case).

Quigi · 03-16-2007, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by nx5000

How is google (or any other webclient) supposed to know which port to access your website?

At least two ways:

(A) Google's web crawler may come across a page that links to yours (something like http://yoursite.tld:8089). Probably that's how they found you first (when at :80), but now that link is obsolete.

(B) You tell them -- see http://www.google.com/intl/en/submit_content.html

That said, I agree with nx5000 that it's better to comply with the standards.
Sometimes there are valid reasons to use an unusual port. Why did you?

nx5000 · 03-16-2007, 09:41 AM

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(A) Google's web crawler may come across a page that links to yours (something like http://yoursite.tld:8089). Probably that's how they found you first (when at :80), but now that link is obsolete.

(B) You tell them -- see http://www.google.com/intl/en/submit_content.html

True.

Doomhammer, you have to know that people behind restrictive proxy (like in companies) might not be able to access your website. They are only allowed to connect to 80 and 443 (https).