localhost, Quick qestion

[cartpauj]

I recently decided to set up my own basic web server just to learn something new.  I'm running Vista Home Premium and I went to Apache.org and D/L'd the latest version of Apache (Win32 Binary including OpenSSL 0.9.8g - MSI Installer).  I installed it with administrative rights and rebooted my PC.  I then tested http://localhost and everything worked just fine and dandy.  But my ISP blocks port 80 so I attempted to edit my configuration file to listen to another port besides port 80 and then restarted the Apache server.  And localhost no longer worked.  I tried all sorts of different port numbers but no dice.  I changed it back to 80 and it works just fine.  Any ideas what could be causing the problem?

[wildteen88]

You must provide the port number after localhost, for exmaple if you changed Apache to listen to port 8080 you'll need to use http://localhost:8080

 

if you do not specify the port in the address then port 80 will be used.