How do I get non root access to bind a socket to port 80?

APB_4 · 04-22-2006, 09:26 AM

I'm using python's SimpleHTTPServer but I can only bind it to port 80 as root otherwise I get an exception socket.error: (13, 'Permission denied'). How can I give a user permission to port 80?

ataraxia · 04-22-2006, 11:19 AM

I don't think you can.

Instead, there are several things you could do to work around it:

Run the webserver on some other port. If the number is higher than 1024, any user can bind to it.
Start the webserver using sudo.

APB_4 · 04-22-2006, 11:30 AM

Ok thanks ataraxia, I just found another way around it as well, it involves your first point of running it on a different port and using iptables to route traffic from port 80 to the port the server is on. I was just going to run it on the default 8000 but apparently using :8000 after the rest of the URL doesn't work in IE.