One VPS with multiple webservers powering different sites?

[hxQ&S8ZaVn9e]

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?

 

[KuJoe]

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

 

[DomainBop]

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

 

[drmike]

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

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).

 

[eva2000]

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