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Posted: Nov. 27 2007,00:15 QUOTE

I installed Abyss web server, but it has a listening problem because the port I need is not open. I need to open/enable port 81, how do I go about doing this?
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Posted: Nov. 27 2007,00:36 QUOTE

Typically the web software opens and starts listening on the port it uses. From DSL you can type netstat -l to see if the port is open on the DSL side.

However, if your ISP blocks this port, or if you are behind a firewall/router. Then you would need to enter the parameters to open up such a port.

Is your question is specific to a router or firewall?
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Posted: Nov. 27 2007,02:11 QUOTE

i'm behind a router. the server program was config'd to listen to port 81, since 80 is blocked by isp. But when I open the gui for the server, is says it cant listen to port 81. When I type netstat -l, there are no ports open.
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Posted: Nov. 27 2007,03:12 QUOTE

Is the server supposed to be started as root?
Make sure the user is set to nobody in the config file.
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Posted: Nov. 28 2007,01:07 QUOTE

the server runs as user instead of root. I've gone through the config file and didn't see anything about the user.
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