Hi, I am setting up a webserver on my DSL line, and my friend would like to host his site, so I set up an account in RedHat, and he can access his home directory using vsftpd.

I set the default virtual host for port 81 in Apache to point to his home directory, and allowed all addresses on port 81.

But whenever he or I try to access his directory 4ttp://servers.ip.addy:81, it comes up with the default site that handles all other requests, i.e those on port 80, as ive only allowed requests on 80 and 81.

I tried setting his accounts home directory to point to a directory within /var/www/html/, but he cant access it through FTP then.

I have no idea what to do now.


Any help would be really appreciated, thank you very much.

*the 4ttp is because I cant post web addresses, its meant to mean http

So where is 81 port mapped to then from your ADSL router? If 81 is mapped to 81 port then you need to start apache on 81 port.

Why do you even need to host it on 81? Why not on 80? Has your friend got a domain? If yes then ask him to point his domain to your adsl IP. Set up virtual host on 80 port


NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /home/friend/htdocs
ServerName www.myfriendswebsite.com
</VirtualHost>

Hi, thanks for replying.

Yes, my ADSL router maps 81 to 81.

I did try this but it didnt work, I am not sure why. I do however like the site being defined by the port, as it wouldnt rely on a domain name (had problems with getting one to forward a few times properly)

How do I do this? I have "all addresses on port 81" in the addresses list, the same as port 80. Is there somthing I have missed?

Thanks alot for helping me out.