[erlang-questions] [Erlang-Q]How to configure Nitrogen webserver with http port 80

[Loïc Hoguin]

Hello,

On 05/07/2011 04:51 AM, Barco You wrote:
> After installing Nitrogen webserver and when startup it with "$nitrogen
> console", I can visit the localhost successfully with
> "http://localhost:8000", but I hope to use the default http port 80.
> When I edit the file /etc/inets_httpd.erleven as following, I got a
> crash error as below. Could you please instruct me how to change the
> port correctly? thanks!

Only root can open ports <= 1024. Problem is, it's not safe to run
Erlang as root. There's two solutions to solve this:

* Setup a reverse proxy in cherokee or nginx to your port 8000.
* Use procket: https://github.com/msantos/procket

Considering you are using Nitrogen you should take the first option,
unless you're willing to patch Nitrogen.

-- 
Loïc Hoguin
Dev:Extend