I just tried this and it worked fine. I edited the site URL on the site admin page. the rewrite rules do not deal with ports so they shouldn't matter.
Exactly, Cash ist right. If you edit the site URL correctly then it does not matter which port you use. No need to fiddle withy the RewriteRules in .htaccess. We use that setup on our development machines and it works like a charm.
I finally got this working. Somewhere along the way, I had changed my .htaccess to reflect the folder structure of my web folder. I guess that conflicted with my Apache web settings which also specified the complete path.
The solution was to change my .htaccess setting back to "RewriteBase /" and it all works now. Thanks for the help.
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