Running magento on other port than default 80 - apache

Question

I have configured Apache virtual hosting on port 8080 to point to my magento website.
Listen 8080
<VirtualHost 6x.2x.6x.1x:8080>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName domainname.com
ServerAlias *.domainname.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/sites/domain/
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
ServerSignature On
<LocationMatch ".*\svn.*">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</LocationMatch>
</VirtualHost>
When i go to the website www.domain.com:8080 the js, css, img and other things are not loaded because the port is not attached to the links
Here is a rewrite rule in magento .htaccess that does not seem to work:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
############################################
## enable rewrites
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
############################################
## you can put here your magento root folder
## path relative to web root
#RewriteBase /magento/
############################################
## workaround for HTTP authorization
## in CGI environment
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
############################################
## always send 404 on missing files in these folders
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(media|skin|js)/
############################################
## never rewrite for existing files, directories and links
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
############################################
## rewrite everything else to index.php
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^8080$
RewriteRule .* http://6x.2x.6x.1x:8080/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
Is Rewrite-mod the right solution to run magento site on different port? If yes, where is my mistake in the current Rewrite rule?
thank you,
Margots

Answer 1

I manage a magento site where a live shop is running on one server on port 80 and a dev site is running on another server on port 3000. When copying the site from live to dev all I need to do is change two rows in the core_config_data table, having:
path="web/unsecure/base_url"
path="web/secure/base_url"
You need to add your port number at the end of the url and that is all. In my case those two rows look like this:
(config_id, scope, scope_id, path,
value)
(default, 0, web/unsecure/base_url,
,http://www.dev-server.com:3000/)
(default, 0, web/secure/base_url,
,http://www.dev-server.com:3000/)
Note that I don't have a certificate on my dev server so I am not using https as the secure base_url. If you wish to use https this setting should be changed to https and you should omitt the custom port at the end.
Modification of the standard .htaccess file is not needed, and should probably be avoided.
EDIT
If you don't have access to the DB you can try creating a php file which will modify the database using magento:
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', '1');
require_once ( "app/Mage.php" );
Mage::app('default');
$db = Mage::getSingleton('core/resource')->getConnection('core_write');
$db->query("UPDATE `core_config_data` SET `value` = 'http://dev-server.com:3000/' WHERE `path` = 'web/secure/base_url';");
$db->query("UPDATE `core_config_data` SET `value` = 'http://dev-server.com:3000/' WHERE `path` = 'web/unsecure/base_url';");
?>
You need to put this file in the root magento folder or change the path to Mage.php if you put it somewhere else.

Answer 2

I have not tried it (becaus I don't want to kill my Shop), but I think you can just change the Port in the Magento Admin.
In System / Configuration / Web / Base URL. Just try to add the Port to the URL there. Does that work?
You cannnot rewrite a URL that Magento writes in it's HTML Output using mod_rewrite. The Request to the wrong URL (without the :8080 Port) won't even reach your server.
UPDATE:
Look at the Source of the HTML output (i.E. go to your Shop with your Webbrowser and press CTRL-U or whatever). Do tags like the following have the correct URL, including the port?
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://yourstore.com:8080/js/prototype/prototype.js"></script>

Answer 3

All the methods shown seem to use a very complex process to do this.
It is very simple, change the URL to include the port in Admin > System > Configuration > Web > Urls
There you can define base URL, skin and media URLs.

Answer 4

You are missing this:
NameVirtualHost 6x.2x.6x.1x:8080
Perhaps you just didn't copy here since your site is working?
If Magento is loading pictures from the wrong site, there's nothing you can do in your Magento's .htaccess file: picture request will never get there. They will go to whatever other web server you have running on port 80.
You can only have this problem if Magento is building absolute links that include protocol and host (a terribly pointless bandwidth waste IMHO). My advice is that you look at the application settings and see if there's a place to specify the site base URL (since the app doesn't seem to be able to find it by itself).
(I tried to access Magento's demo site but it requires registering.)

Answer 5

I had the same problem because i was trying to use nginx with apache togather and i changed the apache port to a different than port 80 so i can use nginx as proxy, i changed the configuration file on apache httpd.conf but seemed that my site was not working, but I cleared the dns catch of my mac, and also used another browser to open my site and it worked.