Sounds like you may need to use some sort of NAPT on your firewall. If you want requests to come into your firewall/router on port 80 you will need to use NAPT to redirect the standard request to the non standard port. Hopefully that should do the trick. Regards Keith Roberts On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 Harish.Chakravarthy@xxxxxxxx wrote: > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > From: Harish.Chakravarthy@xxxxxxxx > Subject: [users@httpd] howto configure apache to serve requests without > explicitly defining a port number in the URL > > Hi Everyone, > > I would appreciate any information on configuring apache to run on a non > standard port, however serving requests without explicitly defining the > port number in the URL. > Example: > 1. If I run apache on port 7894 hosting mydomain.org > 2. I should be able visit http://mydomain.org to see my site > (instead of http://mydomain.org:7894) > Does this also require any coordination with firewall rules,iptables, > etc ?. Any information is appreciated. > Running Apache 2.0.X on Solaris 8 > Cheers > -Harish --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx