On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In apache 1.3 we had this little trick: > > if [ "x`$aux/getuid.sh`" != "x0" -a "x$port" = "x" ]; then > conf_port="8080" > fi > > to make the port 8080 when the user is not root - thus to reduce the > number of 'apache wont start' newby errors and be generally convenient for > the masses (and disorganized people like me). > > Has that been dropped from 2.0 for a reason or by accident ?
In my opinion, that was never a good idea. The newbie users are simply confused by this, because they have a server which starts up but can't be accessed at http://localhost/. And people who do very sensible things like build/install as non-root and then startup as root must go through an extra step to fix this change. Joshua.
