Setting Port Number

[Derek Chesterfield]

You need superuser rights to open 'privileged' ports (ports < 1024).

On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 04:24  pm, Douglas Wagner wrote:

> Hello:
> I'm trying to set up a Frontier "Manila" server on OS 10.1.3.
> The server is running. I can open the server control panel in Explorer 
> and set various preferences. However, I can't access the "default" web 
> site in Frontier.
>
> I wonder if somehow I have the wrong port number set.
>
> 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.
>
> 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. However, when I 
> attempt to set either 80 or 81 I get this error:
>
> "Can't bind listen stream because TCP/IP error -3212 - Permission 
> denied"
>
> This sound more like OSX than Frontier.
>
> Any suggestions anyone?
>
> DW
>
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