Port Forwarding: Why do my local sites on 80 work but not those on 8080?

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Published on 2010-05-23T05:44:31Z Indexed on 2010/05/23 18:41 UTC
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I setup my router to forward port 80 to the PC hosting my web site. As a result, I am able to access this url (Don't bother clicking on it, it's just an example): http://my.url.com/

When i click on this link, it works: http://localhost:8080/tfs/web/

I also forward port 8080 to the same web server box

But when I try to access this url I get the eror "Page Cannot be displayed:"

http://my.url.com:8080/tfs/web/

I fwded port 8080 the same way I fwded port 80. I also turned off Windows Firewall, in case it was blocking port 8080.

Any theories why port 80 works but 8080 does not?

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