[ale] Apache mystery

[Jim Philips]

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On Monday 12 April 2004 06:50, Jim Philips wrote:
> I installed Apache 1.3.29 on my Fedora Core 1 system. I can start the
> server just fine and it's running without errors. But when I try to connect
> to localhost with a browser, I get:
>
> An error occurred while loading http://localhost:
> Could not connect to host localhost
>
> There are no errors in the Apache logs. Indeed, nothing has happened on the
> server at all. I disabled my firewall and tried again. Same result. My
> hosts.allow file is set to allow everything from 127.0.0.1. I'm totally
> stumped. Something is preventing me from connecting, but I don't know what.

Eureka! Looked again in httpd.conf. It was set as a standalone server and that 
meant it was listening on port 8080. So, I tried:

localhost:8080

and it popped right up. 
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