Trying to use port 80 on Mac OS X

Classic Servoy
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Problem: Trying to change the http service port to 80 for the application server.

Details:
App Server OS: Mac OS Server 10.4.4 Clean Install
Servoy version 2.2.4
Internal network = no firewall issues

I changed the port in the application preferences to 80, restarted the server, and was not able to connect to either the main page or the application configuration page.

I double checked the server.xml file and the change did appear there.
I also did a port scan to verify that 80 was free.

For now, I have switched back to 8080 and it works just fine.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jason

2

in OS X apache is installed by default. You should try to check off personal web sharing in sharing on the sys pref.

Anne

3

You should check what the error log says.

Generally under UNIX-based operating systems only the administrator user is allowed to use ports < 1024; so you should see a permission denied somewhere.

Two options:

  1. Have a firewall redirect port 80 on your external interface to 8080 on your internal interface.
  2. Run servoy as root (not recommended)