I guess that makes sense.  This box we're putting it on already has
Tomcat and Inktomi's search engine fighting for 8080 and the surrounding
ports...  Not that they're any of them are difficult to change, but it
presented an interesting configuration glitch when I missed that second
port statement in the config.

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 12:06, Geoff Thorpe wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> On 10 Jun 2002, Sean M Alderman wrote:
> 
> > Opps...Nevermind, I just found that I had missed changing one line in
> > the conf/httpd.conf to change the port number from 8443 to 443.
> >
> > Is there are a reason why the config defaults to ports 8080 and 8443
> > instead of 80 and 443?
> 
> You can only start services on ports below 1024 if you are root. At least
> it's that way on respectable systems. :-) The default to 8080 and 8443
> assumes that, like everything else (default index.html(s), dummy certs),
> it should install some kind of template installation for you to test with
> and change rather than trying to configure anything production-like. It
> also reduces the chance that it conflicts with any system-wide running
> web-server upon installation.
> 
> Cheers,
> Geoff
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl)                   www.modssl.org
> User Support Mailing List                      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Automated List Manager                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
-- 
Sean M. Alderman
ITRACK Systems Analyst
PACE/NCI - NASA Glenn Research Center
(216) 433-2795

Calling a windowed operating system "Windows" is like naming an
automobile "Wheels."
______________________________________________________________________
Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl)                   www.modssl.org
User Support Mailing List                      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Automated List Manager                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to