Switching localhost using from port 80 to port 8080?

Hello,

I have my Apache server listening to port 8080, and when I type localhost my Firefox tries to connect to port 80. How do I switch it to 8080? I do not want to use my ip like http://IP:8080

 

Well, you can only access it by doing :8080 after your IP or changing it to port 80.

 

I do not like when people go around my question.

I used how can I make the "localhost" to go to the port 8080 instead of 80. There is a reason for this and it is because my router uses port 80. And I do not want to type my IP into my browser everytime (It changes everytime I boot my PC!) and even more irritating is to type :8080 in the end of it :S

I just want to use: http://localhost to access my server on my local host ...

 

You can't.

 

Seriosly? How does e.g. Firefox decide to make localhost to connect to my ip:80 ? Can I any way modify Firefox to think its 8080 instead?

 

From what I checked in the FireFox config, there are no settings to change this either via ini or menus. Perhaps there could be addons for this sort of thing, or you could try making one of your own.

 

Hi,

The default port for web servers is 80. Even if this were possible to change it in Firefox, you would break every other site.

You can either statically assign an additional IP address to the interface or you may be able to configure your routers DHCP server to assign a static IP via DHCP.

You should also be able to use the computer name in place of localhost and it should resolve to the internal network ip.

Edit:

Are you trying to host a website on the internet or do you need to be just locally available?