apache2 not working for different ports - apache

Question

I want to be able to run apache on two ports having two different document roots one with var/www folder and another with some other folder.Below is my default file in sites available. But whenever I hit 127.0.0.1 the index in the first virtual host gets displayed.
I want to be able to access index in /home/somefolder/tmp if I hit 127.0.0.1:8080 url but instead i get "Browser could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8080". What am I missing?
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:8080>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /home/somefolder/tmp
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

Answer 1

You need to make sure that Apache is setup to listen on port 8080, therefore you will need
Listen 8080
and
NameVirtualHost *:8080
set in your main configuration, which will vary from distro to distro.
You can check what ports Apache is listening on using the following command:
sudo netstat -ntlp | egrep 'apache|httpd'
Sounds like you'll see 80 in there but not 8080.

Answer 2

Try this,
Listen 80
Listen 8080
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8080
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
#ServerName eightzero.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8080>
#ServerName eightzeroeightzero.com
DocumentRoot /var/www-8080
</VirtualHost>
I hope this will help you. Try to do a prompt restart/reload of httpd/apache2 after making changes with apache conf file. :)