Port 16080 on X Serve...

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Port 16080 on X Serve...

Good evening.

Although I have read numerous threads regarding Apache/OS X's use of port 16080 with its performance cache, I have been unable to rid myself of its problems. So, although I have turned the performance caches off, I have sites that continually forward to port 16080...

I only have one site right now...so I went into command line and tried to edit the virtual host config file for my site (which listed the 16080 port, and changed it to 80), but everything still acted the same way.

For the moment, I have opened the port up on my router, but was hoping to understand what is really happening here...

I am on an X Serve running OS X Server 10.3

Thanks in advance.

Posted on Sep 24, 2005 9:10 PM

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Answer 1

Camelot

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Sep 25, 2005 12:02 AM in response to Steven Evans

If you're seeing port 16080 then at least one of your sites running on port 80 is using the performance cache.

The simplest solution is to use Server Admin to check all the sites to ensure the performance cache is turned off.

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Answer 2

raman L

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Sep 26, 2005 2:38 PM in response to Camelot

There is a secondary effect from this caching. I have some perl CGI scripts that use $ENV variables (REMOTE_ADDR, REMOTE_PORT, HOST, etc.) to track site access. When the caching is on, the REMOTE_ADDR is set to the server's IP address. The way to get the actual IP address of the remote client's IP is to use the HTTPPC_REMOTEADDR.

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Answer 3

Sep 30, 2005 3:05 PM in response to Camelot

Thank you for this information, I've wondered why this occurs from time to time.

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