# Simply change the listen port ,does not work

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**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [January 4, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simply-change-the-listen-port-does-not-work/215447 "2012-01-04T20:06:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simply-change-the-listen-port-does-not-work/215447/1 "2012-01-04T20:06:36Z")

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Hi, I just installed nginx-1.0.11 , and start it by default , view  
[http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80](http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80) ,and nginx works  
Then I change the listen port in default.conf to 82, kill nginx ,  
restart , and view [http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:82](http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:82), nothing happened, nginx  
failed.  
Could anyone tell me what’s wrong with it ? Thanks very much.

server {  
listen 82;  
server\_name localhost;

```
#charset koi8-r;
#access_log /var/log/nginx/log/host.access.log main;

location / {
    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    index index.html index.htm;
}

#error_page 404 /404.html;

# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
#
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}

# proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
#
#location ~ \.php$ {
# proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1;
#}

# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on

```

127.0.0.1:9000  
#  
#location ~ .php$ {  
# root html;  
# fastcgi\_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;  
# fastcgi\_index index.php;  
# fastcgi\_param SCRIPT\_FILENAME /scripts$fastcgi\_script\_name;  
# include fastcgi\_params;  
#}

```
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
#location ~ /\.ht {
# deny all;
#}

```

}

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> **[Simply change the listen port ,does not work](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,220804,220804#msg-220804)**
>
> Hi, I just installed nginx-1.0.11 , and start it by default , view http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 ,and nginx works Then I change the listen port in default.conf to 82, kill nginx , restart , and view http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:82, nothing happened, nginx...

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**Author:** ![fxofxo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/b5ac83/32.png) [@fxofxo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fxofxo)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simply-change-the-listen-port-does-not-work/215447/2 "2012-01-04T22:06:06Z")

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Fxofxo,

What do you mean by “nothing happened, nginx failed”? Is there any  
specific error on the logs? Are you sure NGINX is being restarted  
properly? Is NGINX listening on port 82 after you restart it?

Unai R.  
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LeanWired LLP  
Singapore 168977  
[www.leanservers.com](http://www.leanservers.com)  
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