One VPS with multiple webservers powering different sites?

Hi I hope you can help. I am working on a website and want to run multiple webservers (Apache, Nginx and Lighttp) on the same VPS for testing.

For example: apache.mysite.com will of course run on Apache, nginx.mysite.com will be on nginx, and lighttpd.mysite.com be lighttpd.

This is just for testing to see what I can get to work the best. Would I just install all three on the server and then define what port they use in their separate configuration files or what?

Yup, I have the same setup on a VPS of mine (Apache port 80, Lighttpd port 8080, and Nginx port 8008).

If you don't want to have to type in port numbers all of the time when you access the sites you could use nginx as a front end (running on ports 80, 443) and forward (proxy_pass...) to the apache and lighttpd servers

one of my servers:

Nginx front end ports 80, 443

Tomcat 8166, 8443

Python/Gunicorn 8069

Apache 8080, 444

DomainBop said:

If you don't want to have to type in port numbers all of the time when you access the sites you could use nginx as a front end (running on ports 80, 443) and forward (proxy_pass...) to the apache and lighttpd servers

one of my servers:

Nginx front end ports 80, 443

Tomcat 8166, 8443

Python/Gunicorn 8069

Apache 8080, 444

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That's a reverse proxy for folks new to this concept. 

Can do the same in many other web servers.  Not Nginx specifc (although I do love Nginx and recommend it).

just run each on different port - that's what i do for nginx, h2o and openlitespeed at https://h2ohttp2.centminmod.com/flags.html