Hooking up my box to the web

[Thomas Mondoshawan Tate]

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On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:48:35AM -0700, Rick Rosinski wrote:
> Are there any docs on changing the port to 81?  Others say it is a pain. =
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> WHy?  What are the consequences of changing the port?

Yep. Read the docs at http://www.apache.org. It's not so much of a pain,
really, just that people can't go to http://www.yourhost.com and see the
page -- they have to go to http://www.yourhost.com:81. The consequences are
that, since you're not using a standard port now, web browsers won't be able
to communicate with the webserver software. As such, to even view the page,
you have to specify the port in the URL (eg: http://www.yourhost.com:81).

All it takes (in Apache) is a change of the directive in httpd.conf that
reads as "Port 80" to read "Port 81".

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Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu
http://tank.dyndns.org

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