Setting Port Number

[Matt Neuburg]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 16:24:46 +0100, Douglas Wagner <hdmw at mac.com> said:

>On set up Frontier sets port number to '8080'.
>However, in, "How to Start Frontier's Webserver", Userland suggests
>using either port 80 or 81.

But that was in an earlier day.

>My web sharing is off and I don't believe my Apache server is up so I
>assume there is no reason I shouldn't use port 80

You assume wrong. In Unix, port 80 is not yours to use. You said it
yourself: "Permission denied." Serve on port 8080 and, if you wish to
create the illusion that you're serving on port 80, use port forwarding. m.
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