well, if anyone has this problem, to fix it I commented out the Listen address in httpd.conf (defined for the default vhost anyway)
I also had to comment out this section here. the comments said it was the default only if compiled with USE="-threads" but nevertheless it seemed to interfere. #<IfModule prefork.c> # StartServers 2 # MinSpareServers 2 # MaxSpareServers 5 # MaxClients 150 # MaxRequestsPerChild 0 #</IfModule> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list