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

Stephen VanDyke mail at stephenvandyke.com
Fri Aug 10 11:07:06 EDT 2001


you are correct :)

It's kinda why everyone is up in arms about AT&T blocking port 80.

-Stephen

> 
> 
> 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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