As a web developer I often use non-standard ports for web sites which I’m testing. Firefox has recently started blocking some of these ports so this post shows how to get around this.

Type about:config in the URL area and hit enter.
Type network.security.ports.banned.override in the filter area. Nothing will show up if you haven’t done this before.
Right click in the empty preferences area and select New->String
Enter network.security.ports.banned.override as the string name.
Enter a comma separated list of port numbers as the value. I haven’t tested it but supposedly you can also enter port ranges with a dash.
This should have unblocked those ports and the error should go away…

Links to software:

Apache

mod_perl

mod_gzip

Assumes you have already unpacked everything in a directory:

mkdir apache_1.3.41/src/modules/gzip
cp mod_gzip-1.3.26.1a/*.c apache_1.3.41/src/modules/gzip/
cp mod_gzip-1.3.26.1a/*.h apache_1.3.41/src/modules/gzip/
cp mod_gzip-1.3.26.1a/Makefile.tmpl apache_1.3.41/src/modules/gzip/
vim apache_1.3.41/src/modules/gzip/Makefile.tmpl
:1,$s/LIB=libgzip.\$(LIBEXT)/LIB=libgzip.a/
cd mod_perl-1.31
perl Makefile.PL APACHE_SRC=../apache_1.3.41/src DO_HTTPD=1 \
USE_APACI=1 EVERYTHING=1 APACI_ARGS='--prefix=/usr/local/apache \
--enable-module=so --enable-module=rewrite \
--activate-module=src/modules/gzip/mod_gzip.c'
make
make test
sudo make install

To add a permanent static route in AIX 4.3, add the route command in the startup file: /etc/rc.net

route add -net 192.168.15.0 -netmask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1

These are the commands I use when I install Perl from source on a Linux server.

perl-5.8.9]#
./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr/local
make
make test
make install
cd /usr/bin
mv perl original.perl
ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl
mv cpan original.cpan
ln -s /usr/local/bin/cpan
mv perldoc original.perldoc
ln -s /usr/local/bin/perldoc