Name

Listen

Synopsis

                  
                  
                  Listen hostname:port
Server config

Listen tells Apache to pay attention to more than one IP address or port. By default, it responds to requests on all IP addresses, but only to the port specified by the Port directive. It therefore allows you to restrict the set of IP addresses listened to and increase the set of ports.

Listen is the preferred directive; BindAddress is obsolete, since it has to be combined with the Port directive if any port other than 80 is wanted. Also, more than one Listen can be used, but only a single BindAddress.

There are some housekeeping directives to go with these three:

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