Setting up xampp and live reload with ssl port 35729

Question

I am trying to set up grunt watch with livereload.js and XAMPP on Linux Mint.

The reason for this set up is it allows me to develop php/MySQL and maintain grunt functionality.

I have done this before on MAMP and a Mac all I had to do was in MAMP setting set SSL to 35729 and livereload worked with grunt watch.

However XAMPP does not have this setting and as such I have tried to manually edit the XAMPP ssl conf file (/opt/lampp/etc/extra/https-ssl.conf) by changing settings:

Listen 443 to Listen 35729

&

<VirtualHost _default_:443> to <VirtualHost _default_:35729>

However then if I use grunt watch I receive:

Fatal error: Port 35729 is already in use by another process.

I don't know what MAMP does differently but some how I need to emulate that functionality.

Any insight would be highly appreciated thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You dont have to let your Apache Webserver listen to grunts watch-port. Watch spans its own tiny webserver to deliver the update-javascript, you only have to include it in your website (manually or with the livereload browser extensions)

Dont know why you wanna do this?