# Trying to use port 80 on Mac OS X
**URL:** https://forum.servoy.com/t/trying-to-use-port-80-on-mac-os-x/5897
**Category:** Classic Servoy
**Created:** [May 10, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/trying-to-use-port-80-on-mac-os-x/5897 "2006-05-10T15:03:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@jmeunier](https://forum.servoy.com/u/jmeunier)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/trying-to-use-port-80-on-mac-os-x/5897/1 "2006-05-10T15:03:23Z")
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
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### Author:  [@excel20](https://forum.servoy.com/u/excel20)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/trying-to-use-port-80-on-mac-os-x/5897/2 "2006-05-11T10:25:33Z")
in OS X apache is installed by default. You should try to check off personal web sharing in sharing on the sys pref.
Anne
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### Author:  [@sebster](https://forum.servoy.com/u/sebster)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/trying-to-use-port-80-on-mac-os-x/5897/3 "2006-05-11T13:33:23Z")
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)