On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 07:49:25AM -0700, Joshua Slive wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In apache 1.3 we had this little trick: > > > > if [ "x`$aux/getuid.sh`" != "x0" -a "x$port" = "x" ]; then > > conf_port="8080" > > fi > > > > to make the port 8080 when the user is not root - thus to reduce the > > number of 'apache wont start' newby errors and be generally convenient for > > the masses (and disorganized people like me). > > > > Has that been dropped from 2.0 for a reason or by accident ? > > In my opinion, that was never a good idea. The newbie users are simply > confused by this, because they have a server which starts up but can't be > accessed at http://localhost/. And people who do very sensible things > like build/install as non-root and then startup as root must go through an > extra step to fix this change.
How about an extra echo: if [ "x`$aux/getuid.sh`" != "x0" -a "x$port" = "x" ]; then conf_port="8080" echo "Non-root process. Server will run on port $conf_port" fi ? regards, jaju