<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Strange...<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I do have a router, but when I select the Port Forwarding option, I can only specify ports to be forwarded to my server...no way that I can see to specify an incoming port (say 9999) to map to a local port (80) on a given IP address on my network. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And regarding editing the httpd.conf file: I only know to use textedit to modify the file, but it makes a .txt file, whos atributes don't change even though I change the extension to .conf. If I place this file back into /etc/httpd/ then the Web Sharing won't launch correctly. Replacing this file with the original backup (with its blank, generic icon) allows the Apache server to fire up without any problem.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michael</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>On May 13, 2006, at 6:54 PM, ..lj wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">1) Edit the file /etc/httpd/httpd.conf file. You want to change the listen line to something like</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Listen 1080</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Where 1080 is the port you are using.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">2) If you have a router between the computer and the cable modem (Always a good idea), You can let it forward port the port you're using to port 80.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">..lj</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>