Article:		Build Your Own Apache Server with mod_perl
Subject:		Connection refused(newbie needs help)
Date:		2002-11-29 22:26:35
From:		dfoley1
I followed all the steps(including the bit about apreq in the earlier post), and everything seemed to build fine. Apache starts ok and if I run top I can see it's running. But when I point my browser at localhost or 127.0.0.1, I get a "Connection refused..." message. Any hints as to where to look for problems?

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• Connection refused(newbie needs help)
  2002-12-06 16:17:39  mr_chuckle [View]
  
  
  For some reason the default http.conf is set to listen on port 8080 so try http://127.0.0.1:8080.
  
  If you change the config to use port 80 you'll have to start apache as root. But be careful as this will conflict with the default Mac OS X apache install.
  
  Good luck.
• Thanks !
  2002-12-07 00:50:04  dfoley1 [View]
  
  
  That's exactly what I needed. Guess it's time I finally dove into the config files. I must say that FileMerge (comes with the Dev Tools) makes it easy to look at the two config files side by side and see the differences.
  
  Thanks again!