On Tue, Sep 12, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A recent firewall installation at my junior college has broken SSL. In
> troubleshooting the problem, I noted that the default port for mod_ssl
> is 8443, and not the standard 443. When I did the original installation,
> I just accepted the defaults, and everything worked just fine. Now I'm
> being asked why we're not using the default port of 443.
>
> Can someone explain the differences and why 8443 is the default?
mod_ssl chooses as the default port 8443 only if the Apache installation is
not done by root - because then it is improbably that you can use 443 (a port
only root can bind to). If you install under root, the pre-configured port
_IS_ 443, of course.
So, if you are an unpriviledged user, you have to use 8443 (or actually any
other port >= 1024). If you have root priviledges, then feel free to adjust
your server config and use 443.
Ralf S. Engelschall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.engelschall.com
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