[ale] Moving httpd to different port (was AT&T Broadband blockinginbound http?)

[Michael Perigard]

I'm going to claim ignorance, but I thought I understood how web browsers
and requests work. If I enter http://www.yahoo.com, doesnt my browser
automagically try to connect to port 80? Just as if I use
ftp://ftp.yahoo.com, I should be trying to connect to port 21. Now if
that's correct (which it must not be, otherwise it wouldnt be so simple
to just 'move' your httpd service to another port), what happens when I
try http://www.yahoo.com and the http service is running on port 81? My
browser will find no webpage at www.yahoo.com unless i specify
http://www.yahoo.com:81, correct?


-Michael Perigard


On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, KeithH wrote:

> And then restart your http server for the change to take effect.
> 
> Stephen VanDyke wrote:
> 
> look in your httpd.conf file for:
> 
> Listen 80
> add or change it to:
> Listen 81
> 
> Stephen VanDyke
>
> Hi,
> 
> Color my foggy-brained, but can someone outline the steps to "move" the
> httpd port from port 80 to port 81 (in order to get around the port 80
> block by ATT Broadband)?  I'm using Redhat 6.2 (I think).
> 
> TIA.

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