I can't change WEBUI port...

[dbmage]

I have edited the settings.json and changed rpc-port to 25, but the webui still only works on port 9091.... what am I doing wrong?
heres the WHOLE config file...

{ "alt-speed-down": 50,
"alt-speed-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
"alt-speed-time-day": 127,
"alt-speed-time-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
"alt-speed-up": 50,
"bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0",
"bind-address-ipv6": "::",
"blocklist-enabled": false,
"cache-size-mb": 2,
"dht-enabled": true,
"download-dir": "/home/joe/Documents",
"download-limit": 100,
"download-limit-enabled": 0,
"encryption": 1,
"idle-seeding-limit": 30,
"idle-seeding-limit-enabled": false,
"incomplete-dir": "/home/joe/Downloads",
"incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
"lazy-bitfield-enabled": true,
"lpd-enabled": false,
"max-peers-global": 200,
"message-level": 2,
"open-file-limit": 32,
"peer-limit-global": 240,
"peer-limit-per-torrent": 60,
"peer-port": 51413,
"peer-port-random-high": 65535,
"peer-port-random-low": 49152,
"peer-port-random-on-start": false,
"peer-socket-tos": 0,
"pex-enabled": true,
"port-forwarding-enabled": false,
"preallocation": 1, "proxy": "",
"proxy-auth-enabled": false,
"proxy-auth-password": "",
"proxy-auth-username": "",
"proxy-enabled": false,
"proxy-port": 80,
"proxy-type": 0,
"ratio-limit": 2,
"ratio-limit-enabled": false,
"rename-partial-files": true,
"rpc-authentication-required": true,
"rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
"rpc-enabled": true,
"rpc-password": "{a074fc021270ed2e3d85c935cc14cdeb96b9b44dXmoGIMD1",
"rpc-port": 25,
"rpc-username": "transmission",
"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
"script-torrent-done-enabled": false,
"script-torrent-done-filename": "",
"speed-limit-down": 100,
"speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
"speed-limit-up": 100,
"speed-limit-up-enabled": false,
"start-added-torrents": true,
"trash-original-torrent-files": false,
"umask": 18,
"upload-limit": 100,
"upload-limit-enabled": 0,
"upload-slots-per-torrent": 14 }

HELP ME PLEASE!! :'(

[Rolcol]

Transmission rewrites its settings on exit. You either need to ask Transmission to reload them by sending it a SIGHUP signal, or kill Transmission BEFORE making the changes.

[Rolcol]

http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ar01s06.html

The TCP ports 1-1024 are reserved for root's use (and therefore sometimes referred to as "secure ports") A non-root user cannot bind these ports.

I thought that too, but if it's still accessible through 9091, the setting wasn't respected.

[dbmage]

to x190,
I edit it as root

and to rolcol.
the settings file hasn't changed, and doesn't change after I edit it each time (as I have tried changing it from 25 to 25 just in case), and thats why I have posted on this forum because I can't understand why the settings have changed but transmission is ignoring them

[dbmage]

@x190
my bad i should have mentioned before that I "sudo killall transmission-daemon", then edit the settings.json, then start it again
also if I have to run transmission as root thats not ideal and would probably cause more problems.
I do try NOT to run things as root if I can help it, so I have control over everything

btw thanks for replies so far much appreciated

[dbmage]

hmm this whole problem started because my ISP blocked port 9091, so I couldn't access transmission from outside my network
seems I will have to find a commonly used port above 1024
thanks anyway guys