Suppose I should have mentioned this was a Wordpress site.... The URL 
settings must have the port info in order to work, or it defaults to 80.

Have it working now..


Thanks for the replies.



> I'm attempting to set up a website on port 8001 of a new Ubuntu 12.04
> box (LAMP). I have verified apache is listening on that port via grep
> and telnet. However, if  I attempt to browse to it from another box, by
> IP or fqdn:8001, the browser is redirected to port 80. I did not
> knowingly install any type of proxy on the box and do not have IPTables
> running. Any ideas what might be intercepting the request?
>
> If I enable port 80 in ports.conf , I get a message "Apache/2.2.22
> (Ubuntu) Server at server Port 80", after attempting to reach the site
> via http://fqdn:8001, or http://ip:8001
>
> This is what I have for config files:
>
> ports.conf:
> NameVirtualHost *:8001
> #Listen 80
> Listen 8001
>
>
> Sites-enabled: Default
> <VirtualHost *:8001 >
>         ServerAdmin webmaster at localhost
>         servername x.domain
>
>         DocumentRoot /var/www
>         <Directory />
>                 Options FollowSymLinks
>                 AllowOverride None
>         </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
> ~
>
> Raymond
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