Steps to change Apache port number

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Secure port for connecting Apache webserver is 443. If you want to change default Apache port from 80 then you can follow below steps:

• Login to your server with root access.

You cannot perform this operation without root access. Now we have to update Apache configuration file which is available at /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf location.

We are here using vi editor to update this file, you can use any other editor.

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

• You can search with grep command to find value:

grep Listen /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Output will be this:-

Listen 0.0.0.0:80 ---------------> This for non SSL port
Listen [::]:80

Listen 0.0.0.0:443----------------> This is for SSL port
Listen [::]:443

You can enter the value which you want to update.

• Now restart Apache with below command:

service httpd restart
OR
/etc/init.d/httpd restart