Excited But confused on listening ports

[Ghostpitt]

K -- here we go. I have been throwing around the idea of running my own web server @ home. After about two weeks of screwing around with MS's feble excuse for an "Easy to Run Web Server" namely IIS 5.0. I stumbled accross Apache. After following printed instuctions and cross checking with other sources I conpleted the set up phase (or at least the httpd file. I added a test page to the Document dir. and attempted to view it. It NO work . I finally figured out that if I change the

Listen 192.168.1.100 to

Listen 192.168.1.100:1000

and punch in

http://192.168.1.100:1000

in the browser it worked, (except for my shitty html codeing...)
I tried to change the line to

Listen 192.168.1.100:80

and viewing it in the browser with adding and omitting the port number of 80, I got nothing.
ran netstat -a -n and nothing seems to belistening on port 80. When the server was listening on port 1000 it showed in netstat. Does anyone have any ideas?

ThanX

 

[sleipnir214]

If you want Apache to listen on every IP address configured on your machine on port 80 (the default), you don't need the Listen line at all. Comment it out and restart Apache. Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

Are you restarting between changes? iSeriesCodePoet
IBM iSeries (AS/400) Programmer

 

[Ghostpitt]

K -- thankX that worked. How ever am I not correct in assuming what I had put earlier should have worked? I guess it is irrelivant but it bugs me a little. ThankX Guys!!!!!

 

[sleipnir214]

Do you want to be right, or do you want your server to work?

On my Linux-installed Apache, since I want Apache to listen on ports 80 and 443 on all configured IP addresses, my Listen lines read, "Listen 80", and "Listen 443". andI could probably do without the "Listen 80" line. Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!