XAMPP Change Port for HTTP Requests with Apache

XAMPP uses the standard ports of 80 and 443 for HTTP and HTTPS traffic. These ports can be changed through a few configuration file changes.

Typically XAMPP traffic is used just through HTTP and thus there may not be a need to change the HTTPS settings. But this tutorial will show how to change both.

For the sake of this tutorial, the default port of 80 will be changed to 8080.

XAMPP Configuration

1. Open XAMPP
2. In the XAMPP Control Panel, click the Config button in the top right corner

3. Click the Service and Port Settings button.

4. On the Apache tab, change the Main Port and SSL Port settings as needed.

5. Click the Save button on the two open windows to get back to the main Control Panel window.
6. Under the Apache line on the main Control Panel window, click the Config button and choose Apache (httpd.conf). This will open a configuration file in Notepad.
7. Scroll down to line Listen 80

8. Change this to the desired port (ie. 8080).
9. Scroll down to line ServerName localhost:80

10. Save the file in Notepad. Notepad can now be closed.
11. Under the Apache line on the main Control Panel window, click the Config button and choose Apache (httpd-ssl.conf). This will open a configuration file in Notepad.
12. Scroll down to line Listen 443

13. Change this to the desired port (ie. 444).
14. Save the file in Notepad. Notepad can now be closed.
15. In the main XAMPP Control Panel, restart Apache by clicking the Stop and then Start button.

That is all it takes to change the ports in XAMPP for HTTP and HTTPS. Now you can access the websites with the new ports by adding :<port> at the end of the domain name. (ie. http://127.0.0.1:8080)