[X4U] Any way to change port for local web server?

Daly Jessup jessup at san.rr.com
Sat May 13 18:45:43 PDT 2006


Phil wrote:

>How are you getting to /etc/httpd/httpd.conf in the first place? I 
>assume it must be via the command line since the Finder can't see 
>anything in /private or the links into it. If you're knowledgeable 
>enough to use cp and sudo from the command line then you should be 
>able figure out how to use the pico editor to just edit the file in 
>place. (After backing it up of course.)
>
>By the way, I was able to edit the file with textedit after copying 
>it to my home directory. No extension, type, or creator was added or 
>changed by my doing so. You would have to change the owner and group 
>back to the expected values after cp'ing it back to where it belongs.

I don't know about Finder, but if you use the "Go" menu and type 
"/etc/httpd/" then you see httpd.conf and can drag it onto TextEdit 
and edit it. Is that Finder? or somethign else?

Daly
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