Change webserver port ?

[ben5763]

Hello all,

I need to set the allsky webserver on a different port from default 80. I found an old thread specifying that we can change the webserver port by editing the lighttpd.conf file.

I did this and reboot, but obviously does not work. Weberver continues listening on port 80 only. Am I missing something ?

[EricClaeys]

@ben5763 , exactly what did you change?

[ben5763]

I did what is mentioned here

#105

Line 14 of lighttpd.conf

[EricClaeys]

@ben, how are you determining that the webserver is still in port 80? When you tried connecting to it did you specify the port number, like http:90//pi.local

[ben5763]

Yes, i specify the port by connecting to

x.x.x.x:port/allsky does not work

But

X.x.x.x:80/allsky works

[ben5763]

Well.. I found a bit of my way into all this...

I found out that there is another lighttpd.conf file : located in etc/lighttpd. Since I'm a complete newbie on Linux, it took me 2 hours to modify permission of this file, and modify the server port :-(

And now it works. But honestly I really don't know whether it was the right thing to do ??

Ben

[EricClaeys]

@ben5763, where was the first lighttpd.conf file you were modifying? The one in allsky/gui is modified if needed then copied to /etc. You did the right thing by editing the one in /etc/lighttpd.config.