Cannot listen to port 80 but 3000, 3080 without Apache

Server NGINX
1

Hi Guys,

I am using ubuntu and having nginx with thin (using sockets) and rails
successfully — only on port 3000 and 3080.

When I try to change the nginx config and
listen 80;

it fails and the follows found in nginx/error.log

2010/01/04 21:08:25 [emerg] 21146#0: bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (13:
Permission denied)

And I’ve checked what binding on port 80 but failed:

arthur@ubuntuserver:~$ sudo netstat -plant | grep ‘:80’
[sudo] password for arthur:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8000 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 21395/with_thin.con
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8025 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 2999/master
tcp6 0 0 :::8025 :::*
LISTEN 2999/master
arthur@ubuntuserver:~$ lsof -i tcp:80
arthur@ubuntuserver:~$ lsof -i tcp:8080

Can you help me?

Thanks a bunch!
Arthur

2

you have to start it as root, users don’t have privs to open ports below
1024

3

Mauro Stettler wrote:

you have to start it as root, users don’t have privs to open ports below
1024

Thanks Mauro!