[plt-scheme] Web Server Port Query (v371)

It could also have something to do with IPv6. What is the IP address
you give in the config file?

Jay

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Eric Domeshek
<domeshek at stottlerhenke.com> wrote:
> Gang,
>
>  I have built a web application using MzScheme v371 and having shipped it to
> some people for evaluation, a user running Vista Ultimate reports it failed
> for them with an error message something like:
>
>
> > TCP listen on port 80 failed
> >    Attempt to access a socket in way forbidden by its access permissions
> >    Error # 10013
> >
>
>  This program works on my Vista Business Lenovo tablet.  Guessing that
> something in Vista Ultimate (or their configuration) was hogging port 80
> already, I tried to reconfigure to run on another port.  I find I have both
> a config.scm (in the same directory as my default-web-root), and a
> configuration-table.scm (inside the default-web-root directory).  I suspect
> one of them is left over from an early version of MzScheme and its web
> server, but I'm not sure which it is.
>  In any case, editing BOTH these configuration files to specify port 8080
> instead of 80, I find that my program when launched still seems to run on
> port 80.  While port 80 works fine on my test machine, it doesn't help me in
> reconfiguring for this broken user's machine.
>
>  So some questions:
>
>  1- Is there a known problem with Vista Ultimate using Port 80 or otherwise
> making it hard to run a web server that tries to use that port?
>
>  2- What am I doing wrong about reconfiguring my MzScheme to use a different
> port?
>
>  Thanks for any tips.
>
>  --Eric
>
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