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Date:      Sat, 16 Nov 2002 01:09:53 -0500
From:      Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com>
To:        "Totally Jayyness" <Jayyness@mindspring.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't seem to assign a different port for http (apache)
Message-ID:  <188140056530.20021116010953@nc.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <001301c28d2e$aa152640$0300a8c0@jay>
References:  <001301c28d2e$aa152640$0300a8c0@jay>

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Saturday, November 16, 2002, 12:11:47 AM, you wrote:
TJ> I was able to change my static IP (thanks for the help in
TJ> tracking down rc.conf)

TJ> Now that my FreeBSD 4.4-Stable server is at home an on my internal
TJ> network, it is back up and running... somewhat.

TJ> On my internal network, if I open my browser and go to 192.168.0.10,
TJ> it pulls up my web page just fine.  But if I go into httpd.conf and
TJ> try to change the port that httpd normally listens on, I am having
TJ> no luck.  I have tried these things.

TJ> I tried adding the line

TJ> Listen 14

TJ> then I stopped and restarted httpd but when I try to now go to
TJ> 192.168.0.10:14, no
TJ> joy.  So I tried

TJ> Listen 1124

TJ> Thinking that maybe since I was running httpd as user 'nobody'
TJ> that the port # was to low.  Again, trying to get to
TJ> 192.168.0.10:1124 gives me page can not be displayed.  So I
TJ> delete out the 'Listen' line and decide to change the default port.

TJ> So I run down through httpd.conf until I find where it sets the port
TJ> to 80 and change it to 14.  Stop and restart httpd.  No luck.
TJ> Thinking it might be that 'nobody' user giving me trouble, I change
TJ> the port to 1124, stop and restart it... still, going to
TJ> 192.168.0.10:1124 doesn't bring up the page.

TJ> You guys have any ideas?


Hmmm, try going a little further down the httpd.conf file and look for
the 'Port' setting.

Something like:

#
# Port: The port to which the standalone server listens. For
# ports < 1023, you will need httpd to be run as root initially.
#
Port 80


Good luck,

Neill Robins
freebsd@nc.rr.com


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