I have installed Yaws webserver on my Windows Vista machine. Now I want to edit yaws.conf so that the server listen to another port instead of the default 8080.
But when I'm editing the file in a text editor, I can not save the file, because it says that another application is using the file. But I haven't started Yaws yet and I am logged in as an administrator.
I am using the latest version of Yaws, 1.88.
Any suggestions on how I can edit and save yaws.conf?
With Notepad++ I get this message, when trying to save:
Please check whether if this is opened in another program
And if I edit the file in Notepad I get this message (translated from swedish):
The file [path] could not be created. Check that the file path and name is correct.
After asking you lots of questions, I only just realised that you are using Vista - so I think I may finally have a solution.
If you want to save anything to C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86) in Vista or 7, you must run the application with escalated privileges.
Notepad++ should really be showing you a UAC prompt when you try to save to this area, ut does not yet: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2936528&group_id=95717&atid=612382
I believe that if you start Notepad++ (or notepad, or whatever in escalated mode first, and then open and save the file it should work. If you're unsure how to do this, see here (it's note specific to Notepad++, but you want to use the same steps).