Port 80 not available on macbook localhost

Question

I am trying to setup my macbook to serve Apache over (localhost) port 80. Here's what I did:

• add line pass in proto tcp from any to any port 80 to /etc/pf.conf
• reboot
• switch off the firewall
• make sure that httpd.conf listens to port 80 Listen 80

It is still giving me "connection refused" in the browser, and port 80 is not showing up on the portscan utility.

Answer 1

The configuration seemed to be messed up because I was trying to run httpd through brew. It ended up giving index pages from different directories. I ended up removing httpd from brew and reverting to the built-in apache.

Apache now listens to port 80