Unable to start lighttpd on alternate port

[KevinOberman]

I am looking to use lighttpd as a simple web server, to replace the even simpler one I am using now. I want to develop using an alternate port, switching to 80 when all is working correctly.

The problem is that I get:

Starting lighttpd.
2014-07-18 12:07:17: (network.c.409) can't bind to port: 0.0.0.0 80 Address already in use 
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/lighttpd: WARNING: failed to start lighttpd

My lighttpd.conf file contains:

server.port = 3880

So, why is it even looking at port 80? I grepped the file and found only the line above containing "80".

Any idea what I can do to get it to honor server.port?

 

[KevinOberman]

Never mind. Found it. Either I can't read or can't type. I have it running correctly, now.

 

[walterbyrd]

How did you fix this? I am having the same problem.

 

[junovitch@]

Oddly enough, both of these are in the default /usr/local/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf config file.

server.port = 80

It seems this one gets used as the IPv6 port. Unless IPv6 is disable were it gets used as an alternate port on IPv4.

$SERVER["socket"] == "0.0.0.0:80" { }

This one keep it binding on port 80.

I find that to be a confusing default configuration. I've never used www/lighttpd but setting both to the same port resulted in the correct behavior.